Mikyl Muro Maus's Favorite Auteurs
Displaying auteurs 1 - 20 of 57 in total
Arne Sucksdorff
“My great hope is that when the film ends, these Murias will no longer seem exotic strangers to you but your friends – fellow human beings.”
Amos Poe
“I didn’t necessarily know how to make movies but I was so enamored with the French New Wave at the time that I decided I wanted to start a New York New Wave.”
Kenneth Anger
[On unemployed filmmakers] "It seems much easier for these people to rent my films, look at them and make notes, than to give them a job."
Atom Egoyan
“I think with all directors there are ideas that recur, at least for the ones that have creative control of their films.”
Bruno Dumont
“I studied philosophy because it demands an intellectual outlook on the world [...] But I soon discovered that philosophy was too subjective: it lacks heart, it’s over-intellectual, and I found that it made me cut myself off from the everyday.”
Béla Tarr
“I think censorship is always there. Then it was the censorship of the state and now it's the censorship of the market.”
Benedek Fliegauf
“The first completed project of my own was the short film Talking Heads… that film already contained everything I would like to deal with over the next decade.”
Corneliu Porumboiu
“I believe that the cinema shouldn’t only offer information; it can create a world through time and movement.”
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.”
František Vláčil
“I never worked as anyone's assistant director nor did I ever study at any film academy, thus the Army Film Division was my 'trade school'.”
Shôhei Imamura
“I show true things using fictional techniques but maintaining truthfulness — that's where my approach differs from Ozu. He wanted to make film more aesthetic. I want to make it more real. He aspired toward a cinematic nirvana. When I was his assistant, I was very opposed to him, but now, whilst still not liking his films, I'm much more tolerant. As for me, I'd like to destroy this premise that cinema is fiction.”
Louis Malle
“You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows.”
