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W.L.'s Favorite Auteurs

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George Stevens

“To produce and direct a movie today, a man really ought to have two heads. It is like trying to be a traffic cop and write a poem at the same time.”

 
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Elia Kazan

“I like directors who come on the set and create something that’s a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.”

 
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Wes Anderson

“I know that feeling of looking back and thinking, that part I'd like to fix. So I obsessively try not to compromise.”

 
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Jean-Pierre Jeunet

“I wanted to make a fake Paris, a Paris of dreams, like in my head when I was twenty and I arrived in Paris for the first time. I wanted to avoid the bad things: traffic jams, dog shit on the street, the rain.”

 
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Billy Wilder

“If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.”

 
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Michel Gondry

“Every great idea is on the verge of being stupid.”

 
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Paul Thomas Anderson

“I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will.”

 
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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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Stanley Kubrick

“If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.”