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Eric's Favorite Auteurs

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Terrence Malick

“[On Badlands (1973)] I tried to keep the 1950s to a bare minimum. Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything. I wanted the picture to set up like a fairy tale, outside time, like Treasure Island. I hoped this would, among other things, take a little of the sharpness out of the violence, but still keep its dreamy quality.”

 
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François Truffaut

“I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.”

 
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Luis Buñuel

“If someone were to tell me I had twenty years left, and ask me how I'd like to spend them, I'd reply 'Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.'”

 
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Ingmar Bergman

“Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.”

 
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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.”

 
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Robert Altman

“Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.”

 
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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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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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Paul Thomas Anderson

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

 
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Éric Rohmer

“I do not say, I show. I show people who move and speak.”

 
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Wong Kar-wai

“Sometimes they think the way we work is very stylish and romantic, but actually it's the way we can survive and make the films. We can work with the things that we get, but not the things we wish we had.”

 
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Jean-Luc Godard

“A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order. ”

 
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Federico Fellini

“What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one...”