Danny's Favorite Auteurs, Page 2
Displaying auteurs 21 - 40 of 224 in total
Barry Purves
“I like to look at life from a slightly different perspective from Disney animated films. I’ve worked for childrens’ TV series, but always wanted to make films for adults, films I’d like to watch. These come from very different cultures, being opera, Greek theater or Japanese Kabuki.”
Freddie Francis
“I just loved making movies. I suppose it is because I can’t do anything else. I had a wonderful time doing it and enjoyed every moment.”
Terence Fisher
“Do I believe in the supernatural? Oh yes, certainly. I can’t believe, I can’t accept that you die and that’s the end. Physically maybe it is a fact. But there’s something about the mind that’s more than that.”
Jane Campion
“What I have learned from my work up to now, is to try to be open, but also protect myself by not letting the good and the evil get too much importance.”
Vittorio De Sica
“I've lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I'm glad to lose it this way. To have for a souvenir of my life pictures like Umberto D. and The Bicycle Thief.”
Brian De Palma
“So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point. ”
Anatole Litvak
“If I shoot one take of a scene, I am Eason! If I shoot 100 takes of a scene, I am Litvak!”
Spike Jonze
“Being able to shoot on videos and commercials — just being on the set, with only a certain amount of time and shots and sequences to do in that amount of time, learning how to work with the crew the physical production and the limitations — is all good training.”
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.”
Mervyn LeRoy
[On first meeting Lana Turner] “She was so nervous her hands were shaking. She wasn’t wearing any makeup, and she was so shy she could hardly look me in the face. Yet there was something so endearing about her that I knew she was the right girl. She had tremendous appeal, which I knew the audience would feel.”
