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SaintAmour's Favorite Auteurs

Displaying all 12 auteurs
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Peter Weir

“There’s almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them.”

 
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Sidney Lumet

“All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.”

 
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Victor Sjöström

“The thing that brought me into filmmaking was a youthful desire for adventure and a curiosity to try this new medium.”

 
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Danny Boyle

“There's a certain truth that you do end up making the same film again and again so if you vary the genre you have a chance of breaking that cycle.”

 
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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.”

 
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Hayao Miyazaki

“Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.”

 
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Elia Kazan

“I like directors who come on the set and create something that’s a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.”

 
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Jonathan Demme

“I only work with actors who take full responsibility for their characters. ”

 
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Pedro Almodóvar

“I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.”

 
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Paul Thomas Anderson

“I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will.”

 
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Martin Scorsese

“Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.”

 
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Stanley Kubrick

“If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.”