Conquest of Gaul's Favorite Auteurs, Page 7
Displaying auteurs 121 - 140 of 158 in total
Jean-Luc Godard
“A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order. ”
Blake Edwards
“Make 'em redecorate your office. That's primary, to let them know where you stand. Then, when you're shooting interior sequences, use your own interior decorator and set dresser. That way everything on the set will fit your house when you're finished.”
F.W. Murnau
“Our battle, our struggle, is to create art. Our weapon is the moving picture...we are scientists engaged in the creation of memory... but our memory will neither blur nor fade.”
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.”
William Friedkin
“By the time a film of mine makes it into the theaters, I have a love-hate relationship with it. There is always something I could have done to make it better.”
Jan Švankmajer
“I never call myself an animated filmmaker because I am interested not in animation techniques or creating a complete illusion, but in bringing life to everyday objects.”
Stephen Daldry
“One of the great things about directors is how collegial we feel with each other. We share huge amounts - I get other directors in to see my work all the time and they do the same with me. It's a very warm and generous group of people.”
Laurence Olivier
“Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.”
Gene Kelly
“I wanted to invent some kind of American dance that was danced to the music that I grew up on: Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin. So I evolved a style that certainly didn’t catch on right away.”
Vincente Minnelli
“I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work. ”
Mario Bava
“In a horror film, lighting is 70% of the effectiveness. It’s essential in creation the atmosphere.”
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
“He knows how to create a strange world, whose elements are borrowed from daily life...His characters emerge like his own children, created from fragments of his own heart and mind.”
Otto Preminger
[Giving direction to a group of children on Exodus (1960)] "Cry, you little monsters!"
Henri-Georges Clouzot
“I want only to tell a story. I think movies are entertainment. If at the same time you can get across something you feel, that is perfect.”
