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Roberto's Favorite Auteurs

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John Carpenter

“In France, I'm an auteur; in Germany, a filmmaker; in Britain, a genre film director; and, in the USA, a bum.”

 
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Sam Raimi

“I look at myself as an entertainer, more than anything else. I wanted to make the movie a little more different than the previous films… That was less about me growing as a craftsman. That was more about me trying to provide an element to the audience that I thought they might need something different, that came from a different place.”

 
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Peter Jackson

“The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself. The worst type is dictated by demographics or what is hip or what kids are into.”

 
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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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Mel Brooks

“I cut my finger. That’s tragedy. A man walks into an open sewer and dies. That’s comedy.”

 
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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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Orson Welles

“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.”

 
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Martin Scorsese

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

 
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Brian De Palma

“So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point. ”

 
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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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M. Night Shyamalan

“I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie. I get where she was coming from, making 80 stories about a point of view. I want at the end of the day to have 50 or 60 stories that came out of my head. Some will hit the mainstream and some won’t, but they’ll all be about human beings, and the analysis of human beings. So she’s my hero.”