Auteurs
The Auteurs
01/15/10 02:34 Filed in: Film
I cancelled service for cable television last month. Now I watch films more frequently than I ever have. A few Directors stand out for me. Here’s a list 17 Directors, i’d watch anytime! I’ll probably need to update this list eventually, but these artists are my personal picks.
AKIRA KUROSAWA
“Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied...that's why they can keep on working. I've been able to work for so long because I think next time, I'll make something good.”
MASAKI KOBAYASHI
“In any era, I am critical of authoritarian power.”
HENRI-GEORGES CLOUZOT
“Acclaimed in particular for his thrillers, Clouzot was one of the genuine rivals to Alfred Hitchcock, whose internationally acclaimed films 'The Wages of Fear' and 'Diabolique' are still listed among the best thrillers of Cinema.”
LARS VON TRIER
“I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.”
JACQUES TATI
“Life is full of homages to Tati. With films that are still difficult to see, with Tati dead, life must now pay tribute to his comic genius.”
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.”
JOEL COEN
“The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again, when the actor interprets them. ”
WERNER HERZOG
“It is my duty to direct because the films might be the inner chronicle of what we are, and we have to articulate ourselves. Otherwise we would be cows in the field.”
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
“For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.”
JEAN-LUC GODARD
“A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order. ”
GUILLERMO DEL TORO
“I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue.”
WES ANDERSON
“I know that feeling of looking back and thinking, that part I'd like to fix. So I obsessively try not to compromise.”
PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON
“I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will.”
JEAN-PIERRE JEUNET
“I wanted to make a fake Paris, a Paris of dreams, like in my head when I was twenty and I arrived in Paris for the first time. I wanted to avoid the bad things: traffic jams, dog shit on the street, the rain.”
STANLEY KUBRICK
“If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.”
STAN BRAKHAGE
“There are a lot of movies made for nobody.”
MAYA DEREN
“The task of cinema or any other art form is not to translate hidden messages of the unconscious soul into art but to experiment with the effects contemporary technical devices have on nerves, minds, or souls.”
AKIRA KUROSAWA
“Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied...that's why they can keep on working. I've been able to work for so long because I think next time, I'll make something good.”
MASAKI KOBAYASHI
“In any era, I am critical of authoritarian power.”
HENRI-GEORGES CLOUZOT
“Acclaimed in particular for his thrillers, Clouzot was one of the genuine rivals to Alfred Hitchcock, whose internationally acclaimed films 'The Wages of Fear' and 'Diabolique' are still listed among the best thrillers of Cinema.”
LARS VON TRIER
“I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.”
JACQUES TATI
“Life is full of homages to Tati. With films that are still difficult to see, with Tati dead, life must now pay tribute to his comic genius.”
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.”
JOEL COEN
“The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again, when the actor interprets them. ”
WERNER HERZOG
“It is my duty to direct because the films might be the inner chronicle of what we are, and we have to articulate ourselves. Otherwise we would be cows in the field.”
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
“For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.”
JEAN-LUC GODARD
“A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order. ”
GUILLERMO DEL TORO
“I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue.”
WES ANDERSON
“I know that feeling of looking back and thinking, that part I'd like to fix. So I obsessively try not to compromise.”
PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON
“I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will.”
JEAN-PIERRE JEUNET
“I wanted to make a fake Paris, a Paris of dreams, like in my head when I was twenty and I arrived in Paris for the first time. I wanted to avoid the bad things: traffic jams, dog shit on the street, the rain.”
STANLEY KUBRICK
“If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.”
STAN BRAKHAGE
“There are a lot of movies made for nobody.”
MAYA DEREN
“The task of cinema or any other art form is not to translate hidden messages of the unconscious soul into art but to experiment with the effects contemporary technical devices have on nerves, minds, or souls.”