Ahmed's Favorite Auteurs
Displaying auteurs 1 - 20 of 33 in total
Marwan Hamed
“We need to talk about the taboos, and we need to cancel the word ‘taboos’ from our lives – we need to talk about everything to become better. If we don’t, if we hide everything in denial, how are we going to become better?”
Terrence Malick
“[On Badlands (1973)] I tried to keep the 1950s to a bare minimum. Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything. I wanted the picture to set up like a fairy tale, outside time, like Treasure Island. I hoped this would, among other things, take a little of the sharpness out of the violence, but still keep its dreamy quality.”
Youssef Chahine
“I am young. I am only 81 years old. I hope I can keep working for another 10 years. Old age is to let oneself become old.”
Gus Van Sant
“I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.”
Shirin Neshat
“My only advice is to spend less time on thinking about success and put all the energy in making art itself. Otherwise your relationship to your art changes. It becomes less genuine and honest. Art should not be born from a pressure of becoming successful but something deeper. This is always a danger and the cause for mediocrity in art.”
Nouri Bouzid
[on the film “Making Of”] "The media don’t report on those youths who refuse to become suicide bombers, but only on the attacks that are carried out. But the number of those who refuse is ten or 20 times higher. My goal was to show an example of someone who refuses to become a murderer."
John Cassavetes
“The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail. You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.”
Lars von Trier
“I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.”
