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Sai Abishek's Favorite Auteurs

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Jim Jarmusch

“I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are. ”

 
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Hou Hsiao-hsien

“The main thing is for the actors to forget the camera. They have to act as if they are working in a documentary.”

 
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John Carpenter

“In France, I'm an auteur; in Germany, a filmmaker; in Britain, a genre film director; and, in the USA, a bum.”

 
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D.W. Griffith

“A film without a message is just a waste of time.”

 
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Alfonso Cuarón

“The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or bad movie, it's just to see what you learn for the next one.”

 
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Mani Ratnam

“As part of our daily lives, some of it will also find its way into my films.”

 
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Clint Eastwood

“...in America, instead of making the audience come to the film, the idea seems to be for you to go to the audience. They come up with the demographics for the film and then the film is made and sold strictly to that audience. Not to say that it's all bad, but it leaves a lot of the rest of us out of it. To me cinema can be a much more friendly world if there's a lot of things to choose from.”

 
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Wim Wenders

“Any movie that has that spirit and says things can be changed is worth making. ”

 
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Aki Kaurismäki

“Cinema is dead. It died 1962, I think it was in October!”

 
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Danny Boyle

“There's a certain truth that you do end up making the same film again and again so if you vary the genre you have a chance of breaking that cycle.”

 
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Dennis Hopper

“Like all artists I want to cheat death a little and contribute something to the next generation.”

 
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Fatih Akin

“The funnier it is in the beginning of a story, the more dramatic it can become. Because when an audience is laughing, that's opening their souls somehow, and when you have an audience with an open soul, it's much better to hit them with a knife.”

 
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Gus Van Sant

“I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.”

 
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Kinji Fukasaku

“Known primarily in the West for directing such features as Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) and the controversial Battle Royale (2000), maverick Japanese director Kinji Fukasaku established himself early on with a series of Toei Studio yakuza movies.”

 
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Frederick Wiseman

“There are lots of different ways to make film. I don’t believe there has to be any orthodox way to making movies, or any rules. It’s what works for the filmmaker, and, theoretically, the audience.”

 
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Éric Rohmer

“I do not say, I show. I show people who move and speak.”

 
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Robert Aldrich

“A director is a ringmaster, a psychiatrist and a referee.”

 
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Sally Potter

“I've always traveled with the films because I want the audience to be my teacher so that I can learn for the next one.”

 
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John Ford

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

 
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Sydney Pollack

“I don't value a film I've enjoyed making. If it's good, it's damned hard work.”