The Great Train Robbery - 1903

The Great Train Robbery
Filmed in November 1903 at Edison's New York studio, at Essex County Park in New Jersey, and along the Lackawanna railroad and released in December 1903.
Directed by Edwin S Porter and stars Justus D. Barnes as the head bandit, G. M. Anderson as a slain passenger and a robber, Walter Cameron as the sheriff.

Ingmar Bergman

There’s always a tension in me between my urge to destroy and my will to live . . . Every morning I wake up with a new wrath, a new suspiciousness, a new desire to live.
– Ingmar Bergman

Alexander Sokurov

I think, that if an artist, a film director starts to treat himself as a person with unlimited freedom, then such a person becomes dangerous for humanity.

- Alexander Sokurov

Sokurov, directed Russian Ark, essentially the first un-edited motion picture, running 96 minutes without a cut.