javier's Favorite Auteurs
Displaying auteurs 1 - 20 of 70 in total
Valie Export
“If women abandon their husbands and children, and society tolerates their action both legally and socially, as it does in the case of a man; if women achieve all this – then they will develop an equally copious creativity.”
Mark Rappaport
“Because various projects fell through I said, Oh, fuck this, I can’t stand this, waiting on other people’s money and for this person to like it and that person to like it and the other person to jump on board. I’m going to do something I can do at home by myself that’s going to cost me 25 cents and to hell with the big production that’ll never get made.”
Ermanno Olmi
“...our wars of machines and technology make 'progress' ever more impersonal and deadly - a 'progress' that has not guaranteed man's human, moral, and civil growth.”
Carmelo Bene
“[Cinema] it’s the celebration of the Lumière Brothers. That is: since the Lumière period, what has come out of it? If you exclude that minimum of "self-fright” sought at all costs, or that hint of bewilderment in certain African tribes, at the sight of that train. The Lumières… I think their commemoration goes on since 19th century. The same one which has been perpetuated.”
Nikos Nikolaidis
“A few days before we started shooting, some weird stangers appeared resembling Che Guevara’s cousins and told me 'Give us your script to read and we’ll let you know whether you should make this movie.' Of course, I gave it to them. Two days later they returned saying 'We like it, you can go ahead.' And I went ahead and shot it.”
Derek Jarman
“I wouldn’t wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it.”
