Billy's Favorite Auteurs
Displaying auteurs 1 - 20 of 60 in total
Hong Sang-soo
“When I finish a film, I feel like I have overcome a certain hurdle. It's really good for me as a human being, and I hope that for some people, my films will do the same thing.”
Jang Sun-woo
“When I ask questions in my films regarding traditionally oriented ways of thinking, some people can appreciate them, some others can criticize them; either way the important thing is to provoke discussion and even controversy.”
Margot Benacerraf
““Araya” is part of a triptych that would form a larger feature film depicting life in three areas of Venezuela: the Andes mountains, the plains and the coast. But for the coastal segment, I didn’t want to show a stereotypical “exotic” landscape, lush with palm trees. Our search led us to the arid Arayan peninsula.”
Luis Buñuel
“I distrust reason and culture. In our thoughts there are images that appear suddenly, without us pondering them. In all my films, even the most conventional ones, is the tendency to irrational conduct that can not be explained logically.”
Ritwik Ghatak
“Why films? Because I am totally crazy. I can’t live without making films. I look at the struggle and misery of contemporary life. And try to say something to the best of my ability.”
Wu Wenguang
“I have always looked at the reality of my life, of the situations I found myself in. It is difficult to express, but the documentary is real life for me and in the process of making documentaries I feel that I am facing real life and in this way I do not try to avoid it; I do not try to escape it and that makes be braver – this is very important. I am the person I am through this experience.”
Ning Ying
“No matter at whom you’re aiming the movie-camera, the most important thing is searching the deepest common resonance between yourself behind the camera, and your subject in front of the camera. When you find it you will overcome any problem of artistic form, or productive limitation and even the differences of race or culture.”
Agnès Varda
“I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.”
Theodoros Angelopoulos
“Prizes are prizes, but I still need to tell that story. And being simple is the hardest thing.”
Maya Deren
“The task of cinema or any other art form is not to translate hidden messages of the unconscious soul into art but to experiment with the effects contemporary technical devices have on nerves, minds, or souls.”
Kenji Mizoguchi
“You must put the odor of the human body into images...describe for me the implacable, the egoistic, the sensual, the cruel...there are nothing but disgusting people in this world.”
