Sleazegeek's Favorite Auteurs
Displaying auteurs 1 - 20 of 23 in total
Hal Hartley
“Despite the fact that I love story, character and dialogue, when I isolate the primary elements of film I find photography, movement and sound recording — in that order. Only then do I consider dramatic action. Film is essentially graphic for me.”
Gregg Araki
“I couldn’t make movies like this if I started to worry about what Jerry Falwell is going to have to say about it.”
Miloš Forman
“The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself.”
John McTiernan
“Before I did any action movies, I did a couple of thrillers. That's hung around for me.”
Mike Hodges
“A film is alive. You shouldn’t stifle it. You should never over art-direct, over conceive, over research, or walk in with an exact idea of how things should be done.”
Sergio Leone
“In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life in jeeps and upset all my dreams.”
Sergio Corbucci
“The American Western was too important for our generation. We make them even when we don’t want to.”
Noah Baumbach
“If I had to sell Life Aquatic to a producer, well, I wouldn't say it's like an Éric Rohmer film under water.”
Michael Powell
“I’m not a director with a personal style, I am simply cinema. I have grown up with and through the cinema...”
Robert Rodriguez
“Don't give me any money, don't give me any people, but give freedom, and I'll give you a movie that looks gigantic. ”
Peter Bogdanovich
“It's a misconception about acting that it's a practice in pretending to be someone else. It's actually a practice in finding the character within yourself.”
Roman Polanski
“You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.”
Don Siegel
“Most of my pictures, I’m sorry to say, are about nothing. Because I’m a whore. I work for money. It’s the American way.”
David Cronenberg
“Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing their whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to.”
Jim Henson
“The Muppets transcend all age groups. Their satiric comment on society seems to delight all ages.”
Jean-Pierre Melville
“I believe that you must be madly in love with cinema to create films. You also need a huge cinematic baggage.”
