Ultra's Favorite Auteurs
Displaying auteurs 1 - 20 of 49 in total
Tengiz Abuladze
“Much of _Repentance_ consists of images I have seen in my dreams. I am certain that it was through dreams that my unconscious forced the story to the surface so that I would film it.”
Mitsuo Yanagimachi
“There’s a balance between strength and weakness, sadness and joy. People are like that in real life.”
Shûji Terayama
“Lying down in the attic, where angry waves sound very close, I make poetry my power.”
František Vláčil
“I never worked as anyone's assistant director nor did I ever study at any film academy, thus the Army Film Division was my 'trade school'.”
Frederick Wiseman
“There are lots of different ways to make film. I don’t believe there has to be any orthodox way to making movies, or any rules. It’s what works for the filmmaker, and, theoretically, the audience.”
Philippe Grandrieux
“I never watched any rushes. Because I frame the shots and operate the camera, the images are directly inscribed on my retina.”
Peter Kubelka
“I like the extremes so to speak: either a cinema which is occupied by intelligence and specificity of the medium, or a fully Hollywood film, with its great means, it’s spectacular tricks and it’s stupidity of cutting, the banality of its content, etc.”
Shinya Tsukamoto
“It’s strange. Part of me loves a city like Tokyo, but part of me would quite happily destroy it.”
