Marcus's Favorite Auteurs
Displaying auteurs 1 - 20 of 65 in total
Steve McQueen
“My influences come from real life. I’m not interested in cinema for cinema’s sake. I’m interested in life—what one does and how one interacts.”
Tom DiCillo
“Look at the movies people are watching. They're about nothing. You invest nothing. People can't invest real emotion because it's too terrifying.”
Lucrecia Martel
“From the very beginning, even when I’m writing, I think a lot about the sound. Many elements of my work in cinema come from oral storytelling and oral tradition. I think about sound and the rhythm of the sound.”
Bette Gordon
“Godard believed in the transformative power of cinema, in its ability to promote a creative viewer as opposed to a passive consumer. Having grown up through the ‘70s, I could not have found a more appropriate mentor.”
Abderrahmane Sissako
“I film people passing by, people I may never see again.... but who leave their mark on me and on others, immortalized on film.”
Lodge Kerrigan
"I have a long-standing interest in mental illness. I have friends who suffer from it. I think it’s a devastating illness, not only mentally, psychologically, emotionally, but also economically. I think it isolates people tremendously, and again, I want to try and engender some empathy for people who suffer."
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.”
Matthew Barney
“A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it.”
Léos Carax
“I perceive 'Pierre' (Pola X) in the same way that I perceive my own life: I understand both 'poorly' but I’m obliged to explore them. That’s what a project is: a heavy question mark. You’re the dot under that mark and you mustn’t let it crush you.”
Takeshi Kitano
“Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.”
Margarethe von Trotta
“I think it was a little bit of destiny or some angel who pushed me, knowing one day I would get my chance.”
Michael Mann
“I cannot just make a film and walk away from it. I need that creative intimacy, and quite frankly, the control to execute my visions, on all my projects.”
