moonfleet's Favorite Auteurs
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Ken Russell
“Life is too short to make destructive films about people one doesn’t like. My films are meant to be constructive and illuminating.”
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.”
David Lynch
“I don't think about technique. The ideas dictate everything. You have to be true to that or you're dead.”
John Cassavetes
“The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail. You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.”
George A. Romero
“If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.”
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.'”
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.”
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.”
Vincente Minnelli
“I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work. ”
Maurice Pialat
“What I try to do, with the actors' consent, is to create something by beginning with a set situation that we can deviate from in the course of the shoot. ”
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
“I am never quite sure whether I am one of the cinema's elder statesman or just the oldest whore on the beat.”
