Spencer's Favorite Auteurs
Displaying auteurs 1 - 20 of 48 in total
Howard Hawks
“I'm a storyteller—that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!”
Raoul Walsh
“There is probably no moment in picturemaking that is more acutely essential to a director’s success than the instant of his choice of story material. For the director, that is the moment of conception.”
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.”
Paul Schrader
“What fascinates me are people who want to be one thing but who behave in a way contradictory to that. Who might say, ‘I want to be happy, but I keep doing things that make me unhappy.”
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.”
Mike Hodges
“A film is alive. You shouldn’t stifle it. You should never over art-direct, over conceive, over research, or walk in with an exact idea of how things should be done.”
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.”
Peter Yates
“In the last few years, the progress we’ve made is that people have begun to accept that you can’t cop out with pictures—that you have to really be sincere about what you’re doing.”
Robert Towne
“Of course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.”
Anton Corbijn
“I don't like a very fast film; I wanted a film where there would be time for someone to walk through a room because I like movement by people.”
John Woo
“The movies I like to make are very rich and full of passion. Some people see me as an action director, but action is not the only thing in my movies. I always like to show human nature - something deep inside the heart.”
George Miller
“Lorenzo's Oil or the Babe films or Mad Max or indeed Happy Feet, I think probably they have two things in common. One is very conscious, which is to tell the best story you can, and the second one is that I Like telling stories that basically follow the hero myth.”
Guy Hamilton
“A lot of 007's appeal, let's face it, stems from his doings with the ladies. So, find the ladies and we've won half the battle.”
