Robin's Favorite Auteurs
Displaying auteurs 1 - 20 of 71 in total
Marcel Carné
“I don't know what they'll say when I die. I don't give a damn, but they'll probably cry.”
Terence Davies
“Martin Scorsese is a huge name! I'm not a huge name. I go into a room full of people and I'm the only person I've not heard of.”
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.”
Herz Frank
“If you are observant, if you look not only with your eyes, but also with your heart, the life, for sure, will present you with some particular discovery.”
Roman Polanski
“You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.”
Elem Klimov
“I’ve lost interest in making films. Everything that was possible I felt I had already done. ”
Andrei Tarkovsky
“Juxtaposing a person with an environment that is boundless, collating him with a countless number of people passing by close to him and far away, relating a person to the whole world, that is the meaning of cinema.”
John Huston
“The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on.”
Humphrey Jennings
"Humphrey Jennings is the only real poet the British Cinema has yet produced" - Lindsay Anderson
Rouben Mamoulian
“Color, like all power, can be harmful and destructive when used badly, life-giving and creative when used well. Animals and human beings have been and are unconsciously subject to a strange hypnotic influence of color. How many times have you walked into a strange house and felt depressed because of the color of the wall-paper! How many times have you found consolation in the rich riot of shades of a gorgeous sunset?”
Fritz Lang
“I should say that I was a visual person. I experience with my eyes and never, or rarely, with my ears...to my constant regret.”
Ingmar Bergman
“Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.”
