#1BrazilTerry Gilliam

1. “Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.” —George Bernard Shaw

#2YojimboAkira Kurosawa

2. “No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.” —Harry Houdini

#3The Third ManCarol Reed

3. “Why is it there are so many more horses’ asses than there are horses?” —G. Gordon Liddy

#4Down by LawJim Jarmusch

4. “I’m afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.” —Philip Levine

#5By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume OneStan Brakhage

5. “I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.” —Truman Capote

#6La StradaFederico Fellini

6. “The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.” —William Faulkner

#7The Battle of Algiers Gillo Pontecorvo

7. “It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” —Mark Twain

#8A Woman Under the InfluenceJohn Cassavetes

8. “I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end.” —Gilda Radner

#9Burden of DreamsLes Blank

9. “If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.” —Woody Allen

#10NakedMike Leigh

10. “I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.” —Ludwig Wittgenstein