Alexander's Favorite Auteurs, Page 7
Displaying auteurs 121 - 140 of 493 in total
Terry Jones
“Comedy is a dangerous business. If people find something funny you’re okay. But the moment you do something that’s meant to be funny and someone doesn’t find it funny, they become angry. It’s almost as if they resent the fact that you tried to make them laugh and failed.”
William A. Wellman
“People have asked me a million times, "Why don't you like your own pictures?" I don't know why. I do know that every time I look at one of them, I realize I could have done it better.”
Corneliu Porumboiu
“I believe that the cinema shouldn’t only offer information; it can create a world through time and movement.”
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
“In my films the landscapes connect the characters to a sense of something cosmic. I try to recapture those moments in life where you suddenly feel that connection to a wider universe.”
Jordan Belson
“The distinction between an external scene perceived in the usual way and the scene perceived with the inner eye is very slight to me.”
Krzysztof Zanussi
“My cinema above all comes from literature, and, in this sense, it becomes a kind of a human language. The idea of the visual component in film as dominant has always evoked my skepticism.”
Jerzy Kawalerowicz
[On his film Quo Vadis] "It is about a growing religion in opposition to barbarianism. It humanized the barbarian world, and that is what the film is about. I am always looking for universal problems in my films."
