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Keenan's Favorite Auteurs

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Anthony Asquith

“I will only say that every work of art, even where more than one mind had gone into it’s shaping, ultimately bears the imprint of a single personality.”

 
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Akira Kurosawa

“Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied...that's why they can keep on working. I've been able to work for so long because I think next time, I'll make something good.”

 
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Ethan Coen

“We create monsters and then we can't control them. ”

 
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Joel Coen

“The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again, when the actor interprets them. ”

 
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Christopher Nolan

“I think audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today's movies. They believe everything they're hearing and seeing. I like to shake that up.”

 
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Sidney Lumet

“All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.”

 
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Takeshi Kitano

“Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.”

 
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Orson Welles

“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.”

 
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Jacques Tati

“Like a dancer learns to dance ... a visual comic learns to use his legs.”

 
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Woody Allen

“Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.”

 
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Alfred Hitchcock

“For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.”