Marco's Favorite Auteurs
Displaying auteurs 1 - 20 of 53 in total
Don Siegel
“Most of my pictures, I’m sorry to say, are about nothing. Because I’m a whore. I work for money. It’s the American way.”
Kevin Tenney
“I think the answer could work for any genre: a good story. Bottom line. Your audience will forgive everything else.”
Paul Verhoeven
“People love seeing violence and horrible things. The human being is bad and he can't stand more than five minutes of happiness. Put him in a dark theater and ask him to look at two hours of happiness and he'd walk out or fall asleep.”
Eric Red
“I love horror movies because they have such tremendous energy, and a lot of them don't go far enough. I've attempted to give my pictures a real human level.”
Pen-ek Ratanaruang
“In Last Life In The Universe we wanted the audience not to notice when the music comes in or when it goes out. It's there to create atmosphere. I'm drawn to any style of music as long as it's sad. I'm very fond of depressing music. I think it's beautiful.”
James Gray
“What I’m after, making a film, is the most exact transcript of my most intimate impressions of behavior.”
Cheang Pou-Soi
“It’s not that I don’t know how to shoot a happy ending, but personally, I don’t believe that human nature is that wonderful. I believe that there’re other meanings in things that people find ugly or unacceptable.”
Andrzej Żuławski
“To please the majority is the requirement of the Planet Cinema. As far as I’m concerned, I don’t make a concession to viewers, these victims of life, who think that a film is made only for their enjoyment, and who know nothing about their own existence.”
Patrick Tam
[About himself, Tsui Hark and Ann Hui]: “We tried to inject some energy, to revitalize local cinema, and we tried to devote the best of our ability to work on that. It was a healthy climate at that time for this.”
Ann Hui
“The reason that I so often tell women’s stories in my movies is because I find it very easy to put myself in their shoes. For me, my identity as a woman does not mean feminism, but a way of thinking and a perspective of looking at the world. I cannot avoid that.”
Wilson Yip
“Life is that unpredictable! It’s also the reason why I like magic, appear out of nowhere and disappear all of a sudden. I like the feeling.”
