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Curtis's Favorite Auteurs

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Éric Rohmer

“I do not say, I show. I show people who move and speak.”

 
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Wim Wenders

“Any movie that has that spirit and says things can be changed is worth making. ”

 
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Akira Kurosawa

“Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied...that's why they can keep on working. I've been able to work for so long because I think next time, I'll make something good.”

 
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder

“It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful...it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.”

 
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Carl Theodor Dreyer

“Nothing in the world can be compared to the human face. There is no greater experience in a studio than to witness the expression of a sensitive face under the mysterious power of inspiration. To see it animated from inside, and turning into poetry.”

 
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Yasujirô Ozu

“I formulated my own directing style in my own head, proceeding without any unnecessary imitation of others… For me there was no such thing as a teacher. I have relied entirely on my own strength.”

 
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Masaki Kobayashi

“In any era, I am critical of authoritarian power.”

 
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Aki Kaurismäki

“Cinema is dead. It died 1962, I think it was in October!”

 
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Michelangelo Antonioni

“Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.”

 
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Buster Keaton

“I don't act anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind.”