Lefteris's Favorite Auteurs
Displaying auteurs 1 - 20 of 196 in total
Jonas Mekas
“In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don’t care about my cinema. In Europe they don’t know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick!”
Peter Tscherkassky
“I refer to my work as being cinematographic poetry and that’s why I love that layering, those superimpositions, right from the beginning of my filmic work.”
Theodoros Angelopoulos
“Prizes are prizes, but I still need to tell that story. And being simple is the hardest thing.”
Luc Dardenne
“Of course, we always hope our films will speak to people, disturb them, but we never hoped to change the world”
Fred Kelemen
“They are just movies, individual artistic expressions, personal reflections of reality.”
Jack Cardiff
“I was not a technical person - I was never a technical person. I have always liked the more artistic side of things and I did get a lot of inspiration and knowledge from studying painting - that was very important.”
Steve McQueen
“My influences come from real life. I’m not interested in cinema for cinema’s sake. I’m interested in life—what one does and how one interacts.”
William Wyler
“I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.”
Larry Jordan
“I make films in the surrealist manner forcing inspiration as often as possible. When I am not inspired, I do not make films. I have always wanted to show the 'impossible' in my films, and to astonish the viewer, rather than entertain or tell the truth. ”
Samuel Fuller
“Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.”
