z's Favorite Auteurs
Displaying auteurs 1 - 20 of 115 in total
Veiko Õunpuu
“Making a film is a lot of headaches; takes a lot and a lot of time and you yourself might change your views on the world and the state of things many times during the whole process... but you can create a world that has an opportunity to stand (at least for couple of hours) as equal to that world we inhabit. I believe that to be of some value.”
Mrinal Sen
“Not many, but happily quite a few of my films have satirical kicks, because it is a tremendous force…not just in literature and drama, but indeed in cinema as well. Think of Chaplin, he’s a master.”
Yoshishige Yoshida
“I don’t think it’s possible to have an abstract idea of a man and an abstract idea of a woman and put those two characters in a story.”
Marguerite Duras
“Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.”
Guy Debord
“In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.”
Adam Elliot
“All my films are essentially about difference and the way we perceive ourselves and others.”
Alain Robbe-Grillet
“A new form will always seem more or less an absence of any form at all, since it is unconsciously judged by reference to the consecrated forms.”
Ousmane Sembène
“I am really unable to talk about my life – I don’t know my life. I’ve travelled a lot and this is the life that I have lived, but that doesn’t mean that I know myself.”
