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Tom's Favorite Auteurs

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Jean Renoir

“A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.”

 
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John Ford

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

 
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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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Nicholas Ray

“You like these films, but you can't imagine how often they represent only fifty percent of what I wanted to do. You have no idea how I had to fight to achieve even that fifty percent.”

 
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Samuel Fuller

“Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.”

 
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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.”