Fellaheen's Favorite Auteurs
Displaying auteurs 1 - 20 of 43 in total
Peter Hutton
“Practice, practice, practice and the camera becomes your eye and not so much this complicated technological thing to mediate to get an image.”
Kaneto Shindô
“My mind was always on the commoners, not on the lords, politicans, or anyone of name and fame. I wanted to convey the lives of down-to-earth people who live like weeds.”
Sergei Parajanov
“I believe you have to be born a director. It’s like a child’s adventure: you take the initiative among other children and become a director, creating a mystery. You mould things into shape and create.”
Jean Cocteau
“Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail. ”
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.”
Rogério Sganzerla
“By definition cinema is rhythm and movement, gesture and continuity. In everything we see we have to consider three aspects: the position of the eye that is watching, the position of the object being watched and the light that illuminates reality. This way, cinema does not have the sole function of opening a hole in a wall to see, because its mission is greater: to be a window to the world.”
José Mojica Marins
“I was thinking a name: Josefel: “fel” ("gall") for being bitter and also Zanatas as a last name, because backward reads Satanas”
Miklós Jancsó
“An artist should be able to create his own autonomous world, but making a film depends on so many extraneous factors that I don’t really think it’s an authentic form of art.”
Sarah Maldoror
“I play a cultural role as filmmaker. What interests me is to research films about African history, because our history has been written by others, not by us.”
Ritwik Ghatak
“Why films? Because I am totally crazy. I can’t live without making films. I look at the struggle and misery of contemporary life. And try to say something to the best of my ability.”
Glauber Rocha
“Cinema Novo stood with the Brazilian utopia. If it is ugly, irregular, dirty, confusing and chaotic, it is also beautiful, disharmonic, luminous and revolutionary.”
Manoel de Oliveira
[Answering the questions: what keeps you going?] "There is no secret – it is work! It is doing something, it is a natural impulsion. My life is so complicated – I need space around me, I have so much going on and my house is small, and I need breathing space. I cannot seem to sort it out. I cannot either stretch time, or enlarge the house. That would take up precious time which I cannot afford."
Hou Hsiao-hsien
“The main thing is for the actors to forget the camera. They have to act as if they are working in a documentary.”
Jia Zhangke
“I believe that it doesn't really matter how large an audience my film gets; as long as my films can be shown in China, and there can be any kind of real market for them here, that would be hugely significant for me personally.”
Shûji Terayama
“Lying down in the attic, where angry waves sound very close, I make poetry my power.”
