Matt's Favorite Auteurs
Displaying auteurs 1 - 20 of 85 in total
Azazel Jacobs
“I really valued what my father and mother were doing from as far back as I can remember.”
Stanley Kwan
“I always think that the women’s characters have more potential of exposure. They’re suppressed, but somehow at the crucial moment they’re strong, more powerful than the men’s characters. In Hong Kong the critics always say that the male characters in my films are always weak and dull.”
Nicholas Ray
“You like these films, but you can't imagine how often they represent only fifty percent of what I wanted to do. You have no idea how I had to fight to achieve even that fifty percent.”
Mike Hodges
“A film is alive. You shouldn’t stifle it. You should never over art-direct, over conceive, over research, or walk in with an exact idea of how things should be done.”
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.”
John Carpenter
“In France, I'm an auteur; in Germany, a filmmaker; in Britain, a genre film director; and, in the USA, a bum.”
Tod Browning
“The thing you have to be most careful of in a mystery story, is not to let it verge on the comic. If a thing gets too gruesome and too horrible, it gets beyond the limits of the average imagination and the audience laughs. It may sound incongruous, but mystery must be made plausible.”
Im Kwon-taek
“My goal for making movies is to teach the world about Korea, but I also want to teach my own countrymen about their own history.”
