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Benjamin's Favorite Auteurs

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Danny Boyle

“There's a certain truth that you do end up making the same film again and again so if you vary the genre you have a chance of breaking that cycle.”

 
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Spike Jonze

“Being able to shoot on videos and commercials — just being on the set, with only a certain amount of time and shots and sequences to do in that amount of time, learning how to work with the crew the physical production and the limitations — is all good training.”

 
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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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Martin Scorsese

“Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.”

 
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Stanley Kubrick

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

 
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David Fincher

“I don't know how much movies should entertain. To me I'm always interested in movies that scar. The thing I love about JAWS is that I've never gone swimming in the ocean again.”

 
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Darren Aronofsky

“To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't think is a good ride.”

 
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Ridley Scott

“People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at. ”

 
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Gus Van Sant

“I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.”