MR.'s Favorite Auteurs
Displaying auteurs 1 - 20 of 74 in total
Alan Parker
“Making a film is so hard that if you don't have your main actors going along with the ride with the rest of the crew it can make your life very difficult.”
Matthew Bright
“I used to laugh at horror movies like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. There was this girl on a meathook and I was laughing. It was just so hideous.”
Albert Brooks
“When I die, if the word ‘thong’ appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I’ve screwed up.”
Andrea Arnold
“Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them. And why would I pretend to? That's not who I am.”
Kathryn Bigelow
“I've spent a fair amount of time thinking about what my aptitude is, and I really think it's to explore and push the medium. It's not about breaking gender roles or genre traditions.”
Álex de la Iglesia
“There is nothing more funny than when something unexpectedly happens in a funeral, because in a tragic situation it is when one has more desire of laughing: this is the humour, the unexpected thing.”
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
“I wanted to make a fake Paris, a Paris of dreams, like in my head when I was twenty and I arrived in Paris for the first time. I wanted to avoid the bad things: traffic jams, dog shit on the street, the rain.”
Allison Anders
“There are many reasons a filmmaker makes a film, but the only one that matters is to be of service to the story and to be the best storyteller you can be.”
Elaine May
“The only thing experience teaches you is what you can't do. When you start, you think you can do anything. And then you start to get a little tired.”
Christopher Morris
“If a terrorist organization wanted to knock out the moral compass of Britain, all they’d have to do is to kill 100 celebrities at random. The entire country would have an instant nervous breakdown.”
Susanne Bier
“I use it [hand-held-camera] in order to enable actors to move around freely because I want them to be truthful at all times and that means they should be able to move and not be bound by a fixed camera position. I think if it's used for style it's a mistake. It's there to do something very specific.”
