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Roberto's Favorite Auteurs

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Clint Eastwood

“...in America, instead of making the audience come to the film, the idea seems to be for you to go to the audience. They come up with the demographics for the film and then the film is made and sold strictly to that audience. Not to say that it's all bad, but it leaves a lot of the rest of us out of it. To me cinema can be a much more friendly world if there's a lot of things to choose from.”

 
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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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Federico Fellini

“What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one...”

 
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Sam Peckinpah

“The end of a picture is always an end of a life.”

 
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Dino Risi

“I feel like an abusive tenant. I don’t have friends anymore. They were all younger than me and they died before me, Gassman, Fellini, Zapponi, Lapegna, Tognazzi, Mastroianni, Sordi, Manfredi. I don’t have nobody to talk with. The language used by young people today is unbearable. My nephews talk only about "dotcoms” and “www”. I don’t even have that thing, how’s it called, the fax. I still post my letters in the mailbox.”

 
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Billy Wilder

“If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.”

 
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Mario Monicelli

“Whenever Italians do something, they do it in a very Italian way, but they try to make sure that everyone is happy.”

 
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Stanley Kubrick

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

 
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Alfred Hitchcock

“For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.”

 
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Michelangelo Antonioni

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

 
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Frank Capra

“My advice to young filmmakers is this: Don’t follow trends. Start them!”

 
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Charlie Chaplin

“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”

 
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Sergio Leone

“In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life in jeeps and upset all my dreams.”

 
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Steven Spielberg

“I think that the Internet is going to effect the most profound change on the entertainment industries combined. And we're all gonna be tuning into the most popular Internet show in the world, which will be coming from some place in Des Moines. We're all gonna lose our jobs. We're all gonna be on the Internet trying to find an audience.”

 
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George Lucas

“If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.”

 
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Ettore Scola

“Cinema is not like the work of a writer or painter, who can say what they like without concern for external financial support.”