- Paul Schrader - Interviewee: Freud had a phrase for it. The representation of thing by its opposite. If you push away far enough, you'll get there. You'll get to the thing you're pushing away from.
- Bill Forsyth - Interviewee: I think a lot of film makers think a story is the purpose of a film, and that the characters and the actors really have just got to establish the story and take it to where it's going. And that seems to me to be the complete opposite of what should be happening, because there should be no story. I mean, we spend our lives inventing stories, but the story actually doesn't exist. We exist, and our apprehension of a story is how we explain the kind of meanderings that we take. So, there's no such thing as the empirical story. It's just what happens to people.
- Mark Cousins - Presenter: Godard said that the story of film is about boys filming girls, and about men worrying about mortality and women not doing so.
- Mark Cousins - Presenter: [about Visconti] He films some scenes in a moving tram. A kind of working-class crane-shot. Society and beauty. It's as if Marxism itself was a crane-shot.