Christophe C.'s Favorite Auteurs
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Michael Snow
“If there are ‘narrative cinema’ elements in my films I don’t want them to take you ‘elsewhere’ but to keep you here watching the film, a construct, an artificiality.”
Sergio Corbucci
“The American Western was too important for our generation. We make them even when we don’t want to.”
Alain Cavalier
“One day, the video camera comes along and it becomes possible to shoot your own films. It is possible to make films that are completely yours, the ones you’ve always wanted to do. Since you can take your own video camera with you and shoot whatever you want, they are your own films. The spirit of the filmmaker becomes more and more independent. That’s being a 'filmeur'.”
Lena Dunham
“It all comes from the writing. Then the desire to direct is the desire to have that kind of control over what I've written and to take my vision all the way to the end point.”
Kaneto Shindô
“My mind was always on the commoners, not on the lords, politicans, or anyone of name and fame. I wanted to convey the lives of down-to-earth people who live like weeds.”
Kornél Mundruczó
“I come from a theatrical background, and I'm convinced that it's in fact the audience which determines whether the film works or not.”
Peter Hutton
“Practice, practice, practice and the camera becomes your eye and not so much this complicated technological thing to mediate to get an image.”
Alain Tanner
“My films have always represented a balancing act between those films whose objective is the discourse, the concept, and those which start from the material, from emotions, behaviour and locations.”
Abel Ferrara
“I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself...you're taught not to think too deeply about things.”
Shûji Terayama
“Lying down in the attic, where angry waves sound very close, I make poetry my power.”
