Auteurs Quotes

• There's no such thing as "an auteurist filmmaker." Every film directors is an auteur. We only make films that we do because we cannot put on clothes that don't fit us.

  Lee Yoon-ki

  Clothes, Directors, Film

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.

  Alan Parker

  Art, People, Helping

  "Alan Parker: 'I like the craziness of the film set'". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2013.

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• We once believed we were auteurs but we weren't. We had no idea, really. Film is over. It's sad nobody is really exploring it. But what to do? And anyway, with mobile phones and everything, everyone is now an auteur.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Phones, Ideas, Film

  "Jean-Luc Godard: 'Film is over. What to do?'" by Fiachra Gibbons, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2011.

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• Film’s thought of as a director’s medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. It’s that stupid auteur theory again, that the director is the author of the film. But what does the director shoot-the telephone book? Writers became much more important when sound came in, but they’ve had to put up a valiant fight to get the credit they deserve.

  Billy Wilder

  Stupid, Book, Fighting

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• I believe we have two ideas about how movies are made in our heads. Idealizations. Platonic ideals. One of them is of a movie that is completely uncontrolled, and another is a movie that is completely controlled. The auteur theory vs. cinéma vérité.

  Errol Morris

  Believe, Ideas, Two

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• As a loyal believer in the Auteur Theory I first felt editing was but the logical consequence of the way in which one shoots. But, what I learned is that it is actually another writing.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Writing, Editing, Loyal

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• They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.

  Toby Jones

  Independent, Imagination, Directors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't really believe in the auteur theory.

  Park Chan-wook

  Believe, Theory, Auteur Theory

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• I liked the Hollywood stuff. But I also liked the fact that in both, you know, I guess in the, like, the auteur, the art film auteur at that time was Lina Wertmuller. So, you go see "Swept Away" or you go see a movie she did "Blood Feud" with Sophia Loren and Giancarlo Giannini. And I remember "Wifemistress" was a big movie at that time, really liked it, Laura Antonelli.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Art, Blood, Feuds

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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• If there is an auteur who influenced me - and there is only one - that is Charlie Chaplin. And he never won an Oscar.

  Sergio Leone

  Oscars, Chaplin, Charlie

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• Quand on voit le style naturel, on est tout e  tonne   et ravi, car on s'attendait de voir un auteur, et on trouve un homme. When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Car, Style

  'Pensèes' (1670) no. 29

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• The dean of the American Film Institute has written that I'm one of the very few auteurs in America. I've had freedom for 40 years to create art that is totally personal and is what I believe in.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Art, Believe, Years

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. August 12, 1997.

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• Cinema d'auteur, cinema about people, about emotions. About la difficulté d'être, the difficulty of being, existential problems. That's what the nouvelle vague is. The early '60s was all about that.

  Charlotte Rampling

  People, Cinema, Emotion

  Interview with Zoë Wolff, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 31, 2014.

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• Im very strongly in favor of the auteur theory.

  George Hickenlooper

  Favors, Auteur Theory, Very Strong

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• People know that I have a great love for cinema. Not just for commercial cinema, but for the “cinema d’auteur.” But to me, two of the great “auteurs” are actually actors and they both happen to be French. One is Alain Delon and the other is Jean-Paul Belmondo.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Two, People, Great Love

  "I Have Two Loves" by Harvey Weinstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2012.

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• In a certain respect, in a movie, you inevitably have a lot of people doing a lot of different jobs because that's the only practical way to get it done. When you make a record, you can still be an auteur, because you can make a whole record without anyone's help if you want.

  D.A. Wallach

  Jobs, People, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Remember when movies were just good or bad, before auteurs, film festivals, and guys from USC who were the first to shoot underwater?

  Mort Sahl

  Guy, Firsts, Underwater

  Twitter post from Apr 07, 2011

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• I think the art film, or the auteur-driven film - and not only foreign, but domestic films following that path - can get a small share of the box office. And I think that small share may open up a little bit.

  Roger Corman

  Art, Thinking, Office

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Seeing Taylor Swift live in 2013 is seeing a maestro at the top of her or anyone's game. No other pop auteur can touch her right now for emotional excess or musical reach - her punk is so punk, her disco is so disco. The red sequins on her guitar match the ones on her microphone, her shoes and 80 percent of the crowd.

  Rob Sheffield

  Emotional, Guitar, Games

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• Un auteur ga"  te tout quand il veut trop bien faire. An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Too Much, Want, Spoil

  1668 Fables, pt.5, no.1, 'Le bu" cheron et Mercure'.

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• I'm one of the most fortunate guys around,I still get to do those kinds of movies, and then I get to do Green Lantern, and I get to do Buried with an auteur like Rodrigo Cortés. I enjoy that I can get away with that.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Guy, Green, Kind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I am very grateful that the Russian budget has a yearly budget for film. And usually this budget goes to "auteur" cinema, which actually needs this support and which indeed contributes to creating "national culture".

  Ivan Tverdovsky

  Grateful, Creating, Support

  Source: collider.com

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• Sometimes you see auteur TV shows and movies, and those are great.

  Akiva Goldsman

  Tv Shows, Tvs, Sometimes

  Source: collider.com

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• Le mot 'psychologie'est un de ceux qu'aucun auteur d'aujourd'hui ne peut entendre prononcer a'   son sujet sans baisser les yeux et rougir. The word 'psychology' is one that no author today can hear said about her work without lowering her eyes and blushing.

  Nathalie Sarraute

  Eye, Son, Psychology

  1956 L'E' re du soupc - on.

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• My roommate at Yale University introduced me to the auteur theory of filmmaking. I soon became a big fan of the works of John Ford, Kenji Mizoguchi, Ernst Lubitsch, and Stan Brakhage. I then decided to make my own films!

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Yale, Fans, Roommate

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