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Tosh's Favorite Auteurs

Favorite Cast Members
Displaying all 12 auteurs
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Yasujirô Ozu

“I formulated my own directing style in my own head, proceeding without any unnecessary imitation of others… For me there was no such thing as a teacher. I have relied entirely on my own strength.”

 
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder

“It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful...it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.”

 
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Frank Tashlin

“I got into a fight with Walt Disney: I always pick the wrong people to fight with.”

 
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Preston Sturges

“The most incredible thing about my career is that I had 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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Louis Feuillade

“French production is not definitively outclassed by the Americans and that we are not henceforward going to be reduced always to be following in others’ footsteps.”

 
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Bruce Conner

“With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.”

 
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Stanley Kubrick

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

 
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Buster Keaton

“I don't act anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind.”

 
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Jean Cocteau

“Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail. ”

 
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Robert Bresson

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

 
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Jean-Luc Godard

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