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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.

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

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

    Source: www.americansuburbx.com
  • 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.

    Believe   Ideas   Two  
    Source: www.believermag.com
  • Sometimes you see auteur TV shows and movies, and those are great.

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

    Guy   Firsts   Underwater  
    Twitter post from Apr 07, 2011
  • 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.

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

    Too Much   Want   Auteurs  
    1668 Fables, pt.5, no.1, 'Le bu" cheron et Mercure'.
  • 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.

    Jobs   People   Done  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • 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.

    People   Cinema   Emotion  
    Interview with Zoë Wolff, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 31, 2014.
  • 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".

    Source: collider.com
  • The Auteurs have become Luke Haines. I ate their bodies, spat out the pips, and sucked up their souls.

    Soul   Body   Spats  
    Terapija.net Interview, www.terapija.net. August 29, 2005.
  • 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.

    Writing   Editing   Loyal  
  • 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!

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

  • 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.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

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

    Guy   Green   Kind  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • 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.

    Art   Believe   Years  
    Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. August 12, 1997.
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Eye   Son   Psychology  
    1956 L'E' re du soupc - on.
  • 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.

    Two   People   Great Love  
    "I Have Two Loves" by Harvey Weinstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2012.
  • Im very strongly in favor of the auteur theory.

  • 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.

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

    Art   Thinking   Office  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • 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.

    Men   Car   Style  
    'Pensèes' (1670) no. 29
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