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Donald's Favorite Auteurs

Displaying all 11 auteurs
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John Cassavetes

“The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail. You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.”

 
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Jerry Schatzberg

“I’m always a voyeur.”

 
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Charlie Chaplin

“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”

 
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Federico Fellini

“What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one...”

 
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Jean-Luc Godard

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

 
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D.A. Pennebaker

“You don’t necessarily need a script or actors to tell a compelling tale. Finding a person at a key moment in his life and rendering the truth as you see it—that’s the truest form of drama.”

 
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Sidney Lumet

“All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.”

 
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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.”

 
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Stanley Kubrick

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

 
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Francis Ford Coppola

“I'm in a unique situation. I'm like now an elderly retired guy who made a lot of money, and now I can just, instead of playing golf, I can make art films.”

 
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Martin Scorsese

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