JR's Favorite Auteurs
Displaying auteurs 1 - 20 of 291 in total
Shane Carruth
“It was a huge risk. I quit my job that paid fine. I could have had a family and probably survived as a software engineer pretty well. But I quit all that to do this.”
Dario Argento
“Horror is the future. And you cannot be afraid. You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring. People will be boring. Horror is like a serpent; always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. It can't be hidden away like the guilty secrets we try to keep in our subconscious.”
Anne Claire Poirier
“My films are political, committed to the most important liberation movement of our time. But whatever subject I touch upon, be it aging, love or war, my films will always be from a woman’s point of view.”
Maurice Pialat
“What I try to do, with the actors' consent, is to create something by beginning with a set situation that we can deviate from in the course of the shoot. ”
Neill Blomkamp
“Once the budgets get bigger, you can’t do what you want as a director, unless you’re Peter Jackson or James Cameron.”
Georges Franju
“Surrealism had taught me that reason comes after creation, and creation is a true deflagration when confronted, not with a solution, but an obstacle.”
Ken Russell
“Life is too short to make destructive films about people one doesn’t like. My films are meant to be constructive and illuminating.”
Andrew Dominik
“I’d like to make more movies, man, but I don’t want to just make movies. I want to make the movies I want to make.”
Alejandro Amenábar
“I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what I want because I want them to surprise me. I even encourage them to change some of the verses of the script if they need to.”
Ang Lee
“Things are being simplified a lot for us lately. I think people are hungry for something that shows more respect for the complexity of life, the depth, the grey areas.”
