Edward's Favorite Auteurs
Displaying auteurs 1 - 20 of 51 in total
Jack Hill
“I liked the Warner Bros. movies of the forties. That’s my main influence. The noirs and the gangster films.”
Amos Poe
“I didn’t necessarily know how to make movies but I was so enamored with the French New Wave at the time that I decided I wanted to start a New York New Wave.”
Mike Leigh
“The whole thing about making films in an organic film location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across”
Ken Loach
“A movie isn't a political movement, a party or even an article. It's just a film. At best it can add its voice to public outrage.”
Larry Cohen
“The films I've made have all had some point to them. Otherwise, I wouldn't have felt they were worth doing. ”
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. ”
Roy Ward Baker
“I've always lacked one of the qualities that a film director should have, and that's the sense of intense curiosity in other people's business. If you invited Fellini to a party, he'd get a drink and sit in the corner watching everybody else and making notes.”
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.”
Tim Burton
“I've always loved the idea of fairy tales, but somehow I never managed to completely connect with them. What interests me is taking those classic images and themes and trying to contemporize them a bit. I believe folk tales and fairy tales have some sort of psychological foundation that makes that possible.”
Ruggero Deodato
“When I made Cannibal Holocaust, I put a lot of work into the film, and then it went to sleep for 30 years.”
Tony Richardson
“It’s no exaggeration to say that the ‘sequence’ group changed the whole way of feeling and thinking about film in England – at any rate for a few inspiring years, before the British sank once again into complacency and philistinism.”
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.”
William Castle
“Don’t be embarrassed about opening your mouth and letting rip with all you’ve got, because the person in the seat right next to you, will probably be screaming too!”
