Emily's Favorite Directors

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Emily's Favorite Auteurs

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Displaying all 11 auteurs

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Stanley Kubrick

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

Vincent Gallo

“I constantly try to reinvent my sensibilities and my ideas. I enjoy some of the satisfaction that I get when I feel good about what I've done. But the process is quite lonely and quite painful.”

Harmony Korine

“When I was a child the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option lead me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.”

David Lynch

“I don't think about technique. The ideas dictate everything. You have to be true to that or you're dead.”

Terry Gilliam

“You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth.”

Lynne Ramsay

“I've found that film-making's not just a job, it becomes part of your whole life.”

Martin Scorsese

“Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.”

Pedro Almodóvar

“I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.”

Lars von Trier

“I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.”

Emily's Favorite Auteurs

Stanley Kubrick

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

Vincent Gallo

“I constantly try to reinvent my sensibilities and my ideas. I enjoy some of the satisfaction that I get when I feel good about what I've done. But the process is quite lonely and quite painful.”

Harmony Korine

“When I was a child the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option lead me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.”

David Lynch

“I don't think about technique. The ideas dictate everything. You have to be true to that or you're dead.”

Terry Gilliam

“You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth.”

Lynne Ramsay

“I've found that film-making's not just a job, it becomes part of your whole life.”

Martin Scorsese

“Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.”

Pedro Almodóvar

“I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.”

Lars von Trier

“I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.”

John Waters

“Some call me director, producer, filmmaker. I prefer to call myself pube-king.”

Alejandro Jodorowsky

“Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.”