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Shelley's Favorite Auteurs

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Louis Malle

“You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows.”

 
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François Truffaut

“I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.”

 
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Alexander Payne

“I thank you for this award, though I think there may be a problem with a world in which making small, human and humorous films is ‘an achievement.’ It should be the norm.”

 
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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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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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George Cukor

“I don't weep or anything, but there's always some part of me left bloody on the scene I've just directed.”

 
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Billy Wilder

“If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.”

 
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Jean-Luc Godard

“A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order. ”

 
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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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Wes Anderson

“I know that feeling of looking back and thinking, that part I'd like to fix. So I obsessively try not to compromise.”

 
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Michelangelo Antonioni

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

 
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Carol Reed

“I give the public what I like, and hope they will like it too.”

 
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Robert Bresson

“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”