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a.'s Favorite Auteurs

Displaying all 10 auteurs
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Sofia Coppola

“Perhaps it makes sense that a woman whose earliest memory was on the set of Apocalypse Now would grow up to direct a dark fable about five adolescent girls who unapologetically and unceremoniously kill themselves...”

 
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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.”

 
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Stanley Kubrick

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

 
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Jiří Menzel

“With his debut feature film Closely Watched Trains (1966), Czechoslovakian filmmaker Jirí Menzel became an important member in Czech New Wave cinema and won an Academy Award.”

 
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Mary Harron

“I've always been attracted to that. Punk rock, when I was a part of it, was called 'the underground.' There was something very attractive in all the hidden places. The hidden histories,”

 
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Richard Lester

“Film-making has become a kind of hysterical pregnancy.”

 
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Tony Richardson

“It’s no exaggeration to say that the ‘sequence’ group changed the whole way of feeling and thinking about film in England – at any rate for a few inspiring years, before the British sank once again into complacency and philistinism.”

 
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Lindsay Anderson

“Revolution is the opium of the intellectuals.”

 
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Frank Capra

“My advice to young filmmakers is this: Don’t follow trends. Start them!”

 
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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.”