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Marta's Favorite Auteurs

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René Clair

“With very few exceptions, the best original scenarios have been written either by writers who knew the cinema particularly well, or by professional film workers. Although it may seem at first sight that anybody should be able to write a film scenario, experience shows that good scenarios are very rare.”

 
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Jean Renoir

“A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.”

 
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Michael Haneke

“Every film is manipulative, raping the viewer. So the question is: Why do I rape the viewer?”

 
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Max Ophüls

“Paris, which had always amused me on holiday, was too lovely… Emigration was no hardship, it was an outing. It offered the shining wet boulevards under the street lights, breakfast in Monmartre with cognac in your glass, coffee and lukewarm brioche, gigolos and prostitutes at night… Everyone in the world has two fatherlands: his own and Paris.”

 
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Víctor Erice

“I think that among the arts, cinema is the least known. Its history is generally ignored, and so is, above all, its real nature. As cinema is the most secret of all artistic languages, it is also the least understood.”

 
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André Téchiné

“My inspiration is no longer drawn from the Cinema.”

 
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Federico Fellini

“What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one...”

 
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Michelangelo Antonioni

“Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.”

 
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Alain Resnais

“I'm always in search of special nonrealistic language that has musicality. ”

 
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Věra Chytilová

“I have no desire to cuddle my audience.”

 
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Preston Sturges

“The most incredible thing about my career is that I had one.”

 
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Luis Buñuel

“If someone were to tell me I had twenty years left, and ask me how I'd like to spend them, I'd reply 'Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.'”

 
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Alfred Hitchcock

“For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.”

 
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Michael Powell

“I’m not a director with a personal style, I am simply cinema. I have grown up with and through the cinema...”