Christian's Favorite Auteurs
Displaying auteurs 1 - 20 of 121 in total
Ray Harryhausen
“People ask me if I would have used computer graphics today. I may have, I don’t know. There’s a lot of technology now that allows you to view instantly the film you’ve just shot. But I never cared what I had done, I only cared where I was going.”
Enzo G. Castellari
“My target as a director is to do a movie for the spectator and I am the first spectator for my movie, so I am doing the movie for myself as a spectator.”
Alejandro González Iñárritu
“(On why did he not record an audio commentary for 21 Grams) I don't like them. I feel that if you have to explain something it loses strength. It's like a magician trying to explain his magic, in a way.”
Don Siegel
“Most of my pictures, I’m sorry to say, are about nothing. Because I’m a whore. I work for money. It’s the American way.”
Maya Deren
“The task of cinema or any other art form is not to translate hidden messages of the unconscious soul into art but to experiment with the effects contemporary technical devices have on nerves, minds, or souls.”
Chuck Jones
[On one of his most famous characters] "The coyote is victimized by his own ineptitude. I never understood how to use tools and that's really the coyote's problem."
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. ”
Joseph Losey
“Films can illustrate our existence…they can distress, disturb and provoke people into thinking about themselves and certain problems. But NOT give the answers.”
George Cukor
“I don't weep or anything, but there's always some part of me left bloody on the scene I've just directed.”
David Lynch
“I don't think about technique. The ideas dictate everything. You have to be true to that or you're dead.”
