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adina's Favorite Auteurs

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Quentin Tarantino

“I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.”

 
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Jean-Pierre Jeunet

“I wanted to make a fake Paris, a Paris of dreams, like in my head when I was twenty and I arrived in Paris for the first time. I wanted to avoid the bad things: traffic jams, dog shit on the street, the rain.”

 
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David Lynch

“I don't think about technique. The ideas dictate everything. You have to be true to that or you're dead.”

 
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John Waters

“Some call me director, producer, filmmaker. I prefer to call myself pube-king.”

 
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Harmony Korine

“When I was a child the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option lead me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.”

 
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Lars von Trier

“I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.”

 
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Ethan Coen

“We create monsters and then we can't control them. ”

 
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Joel Coen

“The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again, when the actor interprets them. ”

 
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Michael Haneke

“Every film is manipulative, raping the viewer. So the question is: Why do I rape the viewer?”

 
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Stanley Kubrick

“If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.”

 
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Gaspar Noé

“A lot of people cry at the end of the movie. Some people come out and smoke a cigarette. Some people go for a walk or a cigarette in the middle of the movie. Each person handles the movie as he wants...”

 
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Eli Roth

“I’ll direct any movie starring a monkey or the Olsen Twins. Preferably both.”