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Valerie's Favorite Auteurs

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Louis Malle

“You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows.”

 
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Jim Jarmusch

“I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are. ”

 
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Éric Rohmer

“I do not say, I show. I show people who move and speak.”

 
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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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Krzysztof Kieślowski

“Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.”

 
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Wim Wenders

“Any movie that has that spirit and says things can be changed is worth making. ”

 
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Andrei Tarkovsky

“Juxtaposing a person with an environment that is boundless, collating him with a countless number of people passing by close to him and far away, relating a person to the whole world, that is the meaning of cinema.”

 
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Jean-Luc Godard

“A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order. ”

 
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Alfred Hitchcock

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