Bob Balaban as Narrator (voice)

Wes Anderson as Self

Olivier Assayas as Self

Peter Bogdanovich as Self

Arnaud Desplechin as Self

David Fincher as Self

James Gray as Self

Kiyoshi Kurosawa as Self

Richard Linklater as Self

Paul Schrader as Self

Martin Scorsese as Self

Alfred Hitchcock as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

François Truffaut as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Alma Reville as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Claude Chabrol as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Éric Rohmer as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Jean-Luc Godard as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Jean-Claude Brialy as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Vera Miles as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Anny Ondra as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Helen Scott as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)