“Film is, to me, just unimportant. But people are very important.” 186o3c

1. Love Streams
2. Opening Night
3. A Woman Under the Influence
4. Faces
5. Minnie and Moskowitz
6. Husbands
7. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
8. Gloria
9. Shadows

"My name’s Dark, like the absence of light"

1. Mysterious Skin
2. Nowhere
3. Smiley Face
4. The Doom Generation
5. The Living End
6. Totally F***ed Up

"Mr. von Trier, I despise you"
- Björk

1. Breaking the Waves
2. Dancer in the Dark
3. Dogville
4. Melancholia
5. The Five Obstructions
6. Europa
7. The House That Jack Built
8. The Idiots

“We love what we can't have, and we can't have what we love”

1. In the Mood for Love
2. Happy Together
3. Fallen Angels
4. 2046
5. Chungking Express
6. Days of Being Wild

"Film as dream, film as music. No art es our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls."

“We make each other alive; it doesn't make a difference if it hurts.”

1. Fanny and Alexander
2. Autumn Sonata
3. The Seventh Seal
4. Persona
5. Cries and Whispers
6. Wild Strawberries
7. The Virgin Spring
8. The ion of Anna
9. Scenes from a Marriage
10. Shame

...plus 7 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

“A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.”

“If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.”

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Barry Lyndon
3. The Shining
4. A Clockwork Orange
5. Full Metal Jacket
6. Eyes Wide Shut
7. Paths of Glory
8. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
9. Lolita
10. The Killing

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

“In all my films, it seemed important to me to remind the audience to the fact that they are not alone, lost in an empty universe, but that they are connected by innumerable threads with their past and present, that through certain mystical ways, every human being realizes the rapport with the world and the life of humanity.”

1. Andrei Rublev
2. Mirror
3. Stalker
4. Nostalgia
5. Solaris
6. The Sacrifice
7. Ivan's Childhood

“I think I'm attracted to subjects that I'm afraid of. It's a way to approach things I am afraid of, things that bring fear in my heart, and try to understand them, try to deal with them. It's like demons. ... I'm just visiting fears.”

1. Arrival
2. Blade Runner 2049
3. Incendies
4. Prisoners
5. Sicario
6. Dune
7. Polytechnique
8. Enemy

''I want the film to start when you leave the auditorium.''

1. PlayTime
2. Mon Oncle
3. Monsieur Hulot's Holiday
4. Trafic
5. Parade
6. Jour de Fête

"You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates."

1. Aguirre, the Wrath of God
2. Fitzcarraldo
3. Stroszek
4. Nosferatu the Vampyre
5. Lessons of Darkness
6. Grizzly Man
7. Land of Silence and Darkness

"I don’t know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense.”

"My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me."

1. Blue Velvet
2. Mulholland Drive
3. Inland Empire
4. Eraserhead
5. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
6. Lost Highway
7. Wild at Heart
8. The Straight Story
9. The Elephant Man
10. Dune

"Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress."

1. Spring Breakers
2. Julien Donkey-Boy
3. Gummo
4. The Beach Bum
5. Mister Lonely

“I think you have to write the film that you want to see, and try and do it honestly, and you can’t control people’s responses, really.”

1. Hot Fuzz
2. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
3. Shaun of the Dead
4. Baby Driver
5. The World's End

"If you figure out a way to live without a master, any master, be sure to let the rest of us know, for you would be the first in the history of the world."

1. The Master
2. Boogie Nights
3. Punch-Drunk Love
4. There Will Be Blood
5. Phantom Thread
6. Magnolia
7. Inherent Vice
8. Hard Eight

“Study the old masters, enrich your palette, expand the canvas."

Love you Marty.

1. After Hours
2. GoodFellas
3. Taxi Driver
4. Raging Bull
5. The King of Comedy
6. The Wolf of Wall Street
7. The Irishman
8. The Last Temptation of Christ
9. The Departed
10. Bringing Out the Dead

...plus 9 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

"The most personal is the most creative."

1. Parasite
2. Memories of Murder
3. Mother
4. Snowpiercer
5. The Host
6. Okja

"When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.' "

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
3. Inglourious Basterds
4. Reservoir Dogs
5. Jackie Brown
6. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
7. Django Unchained
8. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
9. The Hateful Eight
10. Death Proof

"If it was never new, and it never gets old, than it's a folk song."

1. Inside Llewyn Davis
2. Fargo
3. No Country for Old Men
4. A Serious Man
5. The Big Lebowski
6. Blood Simple
7. Raising Arizona
8. True Grit
9. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
10. Burn After Reading

"We are what we love, not what loves us."

1. Synecdoche, New York
2. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
3. Being John Malkovich
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
5. Adaptation.
6. Anomalisa

“You see? There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. Indeed that's what we provide in our own modest, humble, insignificant - Oh, fuck it."

(Live action only)

1. The Grand Budapest Hotel
2. The Royal Tenenbaums
3. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
4. Moonrise Kingdom
5. Rushmore
6. The Darjeeling Limited

"The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them."

1. Vertigo
2. Rear Window
3. Psycho
4. Notorious
5. North by Northwest
6. Strangers on a Train