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PhiGuy's Favorite Auteurs

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Paul Thomas Anderson

“I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will.”

 
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Orson Welles

“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.”

 
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John Huston

“The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on.”

 
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Steven Spielberg

“I think that the Internet is going to effect the most profound change on the entertainment industries combined. And we're all gonna be tuning into the most popular Internet show in the world, which will be coming from some place in Des Moines. We're all gonna lose our jobs. We're all gonna be on the Internet trying to find an audience.”

 
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Werner Herzog

“It is my duty to direct because the films might be the inner chronicle of what we are, and we have to articulate ourselves. Otherwise we would be cows in the field.”

 
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Wim Wenders

“Any movie that has that spirit and says things can be changed is worth making. ”

 
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Danny Boyle

“There's a certain truth that you do end up making the same film again and again so if you vary the genre you have a chance of breaking that cycle.”

 
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Mike Nichols

“Nerves provide me with energy...It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that I get worried.”

 
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John Ford

“I hate the cinema. But I like making westerns.”

 
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Stanley Kramer

“I’m always pursuing the next dream, hunting for the next truth.”

 
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Frank Capra

“My advice to young filmmakers is this: Don’t follow trends. Start them!”

 
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Charlie Chaplin

“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”

 
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Francis Ford Coppola

“I'm in a unique situation. I'm like now an elderly retired guy who made a lot of money, and now I can just, instead of playing golf, I can make art films.”

 
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Stanley Kubrick

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