Brian's Favorite Auteurs
Displaying auteurs 1 - 20 of 48 in total
Marguerite Duras
“Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.”
Jacques Feyder
“I am only a craftsman working in a very big industry that in a third of a century conquered the markets, caught up the oldest and most important human activities like metallurgy or motor-engineering and may be compared with press for its social influence and its power in spreading ideas.”
Mani Kaul
“I made films because I wanted to make films. I didn’t do it with the intention of giving the audience a message. The act of making a film is a social act.”
Pier Paolo Pasolini
“The mark which has dominated all my work is this longing for life, this sense of exclusion, which doesn't lessen but augments this love of life.”
Leonardo Favio
“I suppose that every person who is devoted to painting, to visual arts in general, searches an aesthetic, but it is impossible to find an aesthetic that has not been touched by anyone.”
Yoshishige Yoshida
“I don’t think it’s possible to have an abstract idea of a man and an abstract idea of a woman and put those two characters in a story.”
Ritwik Ghatak
“Why films? Because I am totally crazy. I can’t live without making films. I look at the struggle and misery of contemporary life. And try to say something to the best of my ability.”
Jacques Rivette
“What's important for me in a film is that it be alive, that it be imbued with presence, which is basically the same thing. And that this presence, inscribed within the film, possesses a form of magic. There's something profoundly mysterious in this.”
Hiroshi Shimizu
"People like me and Ozu get films made by hard work, but Shimizu is a genius.” [Kenji Mizoguchi]
Carl Theodor Dreyer
“Nothing in the world can be compared to the human face. There is no greater experience in a studio than to witness the expression of a sensitive face under the mysterious power of inspiration. To see it animated from inside, and turning into poetry.”
