Bill's Favorite Auteurs
Displaying all 16 auteurs
Bill Condon
“Bonnie and Clyde led to two things-a love of movies at a fortunate moment when movies were really interesting, and also a love of writing about movies, because Bonnie and Clyde was written about so much. And that's what kind of ultimately pointed me in the direction of making movies as opposed to theater.”
George Cukor
“I don't weep or anything, but there's always some part of me left bloody on the scene I've just directed.”
Stephen Daldry
“One of the great things about directors is how collegial we feel with each other. We share huge amounts - I get other directors in to see my work all the time and they do the same with me. It's a very warm and generous group of people.”
Howard Hawks
“I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move! ”
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.”
Woody Allen
“Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.”
Anthony Asquith
“I will only say that every work of art, even where more than one mind had gone into it’s shaping, ultimately bears the imprint of a single personality.”
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.”
