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Kristopher's Favorite Auteurs

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Leo McCarey

“I love when people laugh. I love when they cry, I like a story to say something, and I hope the audience feels happier leaving the theater than when it came in.”

 
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Jacques Tati

“Like a dancer learns to dance ... a visual comic learns to use his legs.”

 
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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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Ernst Lubitsch

“There are a thousand ways to point a camera, but really only one.”

 
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Fritz Lang

“I should say that I was a visual person. I experience with my eyes and never, or rarely, with my ears...to my constant regret.”

 
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Frank Capra

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

 
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David Lean

“My distinguishing talent is the ability to put people under the microscope, perhaps to go one or two layers farther down than some other directors.”

 
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John Ford

“I hate the cinema. But I like making westerns.”

 
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Howard Hawks

“I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move! ”

 
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William Wyler

“I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.”

 
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Charlie Chaplin

“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”

 
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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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Stanley Kubrick

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

 
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Billy Wilder

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