crosshatches's Favorite Auteurs
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Jean-Marie Straub
“It is the dividing lines that make one’s public. And the dividing lines end up in one way or another being lines which correspond to the lines of class, and class struggle.”
Danièle Huillet
“It is the dividing lines that make one’s public. And the dividing lines end up in one way or another being lines which correspond to the lines of class, and class struggle.”
Shûji Terayama
“Lying down in the attic, where angry waves sound very close, I make poetry my power.”
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.”
Mark Rappaport
“Because various projects fell through I said, Oh, fuck this, I can’t stand this, waiting on other people’s money and for this person to like it and that person to like it and the other person to jump on board. I’m going to do something I can do at home by myself that’s going to cost me 25 cents and to hell with the big production that’ll never get made.”
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.”
Tsai Ming-liang
“The body always plays an important role in my films. You could say the body is the most beautiful thing we have or you could say it’s the ugliest thing we have. We can sell bodies, we can adore or worship bodies.”
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.”
Chantal Akerman
“When people ask me if I am a feminist film maker, I reply I am a woman and I also make films.”
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
“I, as a filmmaker, treat my works as I do my own sons or daughters. I don't care if people are fond of them or despise them, as long as I created them with my best intentions and efforts.”
David Perlov
“Perlov brought to Israeli film the tradition of the documentary cinema, fusing theory and practice. His greatness was in the fact that his work was at the same time personal and public, revealing and mysterious, intimate and all embracing, as all great art is” — Uri Klein
