Tyler's Favorite Auteurs
Displaying auteurs 1 - 20 of 324 in total
Mitchell Leisen
“The camera never moves arbitrarily in any of my films. It follows somebody across the room or some kind of action; therefore you are not particularly conscious of the camera moving. Unnecessary camera movement destroys the concentration of the audience.”
Arne Sucksdorff
“My great hope is that when the film ends, these Murias will no longer seem exotic strangers to you but your friends – fellow human beings.”
Gilles Groulx
“A filmmaker is a journalist: he must inform and comment. For me, what counts in a film is the moral, what the author has to say. Mere technique is meaningless. The story, too, is meaningless; it’s the pretext for the film; it’s like the model for an impressionist painter.”
Mike Kuchar
“When I was a kid, I’d look at the screen and see all those adults in turbulent dramas, I couldn’t wait to be an adult.”
George Kuchar
“I get up late after editing ‘til dawn, soil some kitchenware, feed the cats and then go out for exercise so that my mid section doesn’t expand so much when I sit down at the editing bench once again.”
Bruce Conner
“With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.”
Leonardo Favio
“I suppose that every person who is devoted to painting, to visual arts in general, searches an aesthetic, but it is impossible to find an aesthetic that has not been touched by anyone.”
Emilio Fernández
“I tried to make films with a relentless and direct style, where I emphasized the strenght and beauty of Mexico, because Mexico has an unsettling duality: it is a people of masks and of full transparency.”
Jan Troell
[about working class themes] “When I look back I can see that this is a common theme in my films, but it’s not something I’m actually aware of when I’m choosing. You can see it in retrospect but not when you are doing it."
