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Ian's Favorite Auteurs

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Kôji Wakamatsu

“I don’t think much of critics, so naturally they don’t think much of me either.”

Seijun Suzuki

“I was never rebellious, I was just mischievous!”

Jean-Luc Godard

“A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order. ”

Nicholas Ray

“You like these films, but you can't imagine how often they represent only fifty percent of what I wanted to do. You have no idea how I had to fight to achieve even that fifty percent.”

Doris Wishman

“ALL movies are exploitation movies.”

John Ford

“I hate the cinema. But I like making westerns.”

Nagisa Ôshima

“My hatred for Japanese cinema includes absolutely all of it.”

Martin Scorsese

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

Stanley Kubrick

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

Wong Kar-wai

“Sometimes they think the way we work is very stylish and romantic, but actually it's the way we can survive and make the films. We can work with the things that we get, but not the things we wish we had.”

Ian's Favorite Auteurs

Kôji Wakamatsu

“I don’t think much of critics, so naturally they don’t think much of me either.”

Seijun Suzuki

“I was never rebellious, I was just mischievous!”

Jean-Luc Godard

“A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order. ”

Nicholas Ray

“You like these films, but you can't imagine how often they represent only fifty percent of what I wanted to do. You have no idea how I had to fight to achieve even that fifty percent.”

Doris Wishman

“ALL movies are exploitation movies.”

John Ford

“I hate the cinema. But I like making westerns.”

Nagisa Ôshima

“My hatred for Japanese cinema includes absolutely all of it.”

Martin Scorsese

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

Stanley Kubrick

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

Wong Kar-wai

“Sometimes they think the way we work is very stylish and romantic, but actually it's the way we can survive and make the films. We can work with the things that we get, but not the things we wish we had.”

Orson Welles

“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.”