Caroline's Favorite Auteurs
Displaying auteurs 1 - 20 of 63 in total
Otto Preminger
[Giving direction to a group of children on Exodus (1960)] "Cry, you little monsters!"
Hayao Miyazaki
“Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.”
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.”
Michael Powell
“I’m not a director with a personal style, I am simply cinema. I have grown up with and through the cinema...”
Christopher Guest
“Comedy is like music. You have to know the key and you have to find players with good chops.”
John Sayles
“Oh, I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean.”
Paul Schrader
“What fascinates me are people who want to be one thing but who behave in a way contradictory to that. Who might say, ‘I want to be happy, but I keep doing things that make me unhappy.”
David Lean
“My distinguishing talent is the ability to put people under the microscope, perhaps to go one or two layers farther down than some other directors.”
Tim Robbins
“Any time you're trying to do a movie with a happy ending, it's very difficult because it's been done before and you don't want to be manipulative.”
Steven Soderbergh
“To me the director's job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.”
