Lauren's Favorite Directors

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Lauren's Favorite Auteurs

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Max Ophüls

“Paris, which had always amused me on holiday, was too lovely… Emigration was no hardship, it was an outing. It offered the shining wet boulevards under the street lights, breakfast in Monmartre with cognac in your glass, coffee and lukewarm brioche, gigolos and prostitutes at night… Everyone in the world has two fatherlands: his own and Paris.”

Marguerite Duras

“Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.”

Frank Borzage

“Make the audience sentimental instead of the player. Make the audience act.”

Julien Duvivier

Genius is just a word; filmmaking is a craft.

Jacques Rivette

“What's important for me in a film is that it be alive, that it be imbued with presence, which is basically the same thing. And that this presence, inscribed within the film, possesses a form of magic. There's something profoundly mysterious in this.”

Ernst Lubitsch

“There are a thousand ways to point a camera, but really only one.”

Michelangelo Antonioni

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

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.”

Pedro Almodóvar

“I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.”

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.”

Lauren's Favorite Auteurs

Max Ophüls

Marguerite Duras

“Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.”

Frank Borzage

“Make the audience sentimental instead of the player. Make the audience act.”

Julien Duvivier

Genius is just a word; filmmaking is a craft.

Jacques Rivette

“What's important for me in a film is that it be alive, that it be imbued with presence, which is basically the same thing. And that this presence, inscribed within the film, possesses a form of magic. There's something profoundly mysterious in this.”

Ernst Lubitsch

“There are a thousand ways to point a camera, but really only one.”

Michelangelo Antonioni

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

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.”

Pedro Almodóvar

“I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.”

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.”

Alain Resnais

“I'm always in search of special nonrealistic language that has musicality. ”