Grant's Favorite Auteurs
Displaying auteurs 1 - 20 of 30 in total
Errol Morris
“The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.”
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.”
Charles Burnett
“The impetus was the whole Civil Rights Movement and we felt we had a responsibility to reflect reality, tell the truth about the black community. To help, however we can, to march the social movement forward.”
Nam June Paik
“Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body’s new membrane of existence.”
Len Lye
“One of my art teachers put me onto trying to find my own art theory. After many morning walks…an idea hit me that seemed like a complete revelation. It was to compose motion, just as musicians compose sound. [The idea] was to lead me far, far away from wanting to excel in…traditional art.”
Spike Lee
“I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.”
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
“I, as a filmmaker, treat my works as I do my own sons or daughters. I don't care if people are fond of them or despise them, as long as I created them with my best intentions and efforts.”
Miranda July
“As a filmmaker, the last thing you want to do is place kids in emotional or physical jeopardy. Especially for me, coming from a place of really loving those kids.”
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
“When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.”
Maya Deren
“The task of cinema or any other art form is not to translate hidden messages of the unconscious soul into art but to experiment with the effects contemporary technical devices have on nerves, minds, or souls.”
Hiroshi Shimizu
People like me and Ozu get films made by hard work, but Shimizu is a genius… —Kenji Mizoguchi
William Klein
“The kinetic quality of New York, the kids, dirt, madness—I tried to find a photographic style that would come close to it.”
