Top 20 Quotes About Auteurs
#1. 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
#2. When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.
Cherrie Moraga
#3. Ash was my best friend, my lover, and the closest thing to a soul mate I'd ever find,
Garrett Leigh
#4. Once waking into the realization that eternity is waiting in every moment, I discovered that wealth is time, not money.
Mark Nepo
#5. 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
#6. Every time you work, it's a new film, and generally when you work with auteurs, people that write and direct their films, there's always an originality.
Isabella Rossellini
#7. I do believe that there are auteurs, in the sense that there are filmmakers with very strong voices and their voices are communicated on to the screen without a lot of compromise.
Mark Romanek
#8. 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
#9. At what point do you no longer need other people to support the decisions you've made about your own reality?
Scott Ginsberg
#10. Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated
C.S. Lewis
#11. Pride of one's work is not improper, unladylike, or vain. We can all take a lesson from the sea turtle. She does not travel thousands of miles or risk all for her ego. She has an instinct for greatness
one that I believe is found in all living creatures.
Mary Alice
#12. By embracing the "outcast," Jesus underscored the "sinfulness" of the persons and systems that cast them out.
Miroslav Volf
#13. 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
#14. The New Testament calls this "the peace that passes understanding," because it goes beyond thinking - no amount of mental churning will get you there.
Deepak Chopra
#15. The magician to some degree is trying to drive him or herself mad in a controlled setting, within controlled laws.
Alan Moore
#16. The Auteurs have become Luke Haines. I ate their bodies, spat out the pips, and sucked up their souls.
Luke Haines
#17. My view of myself as an artist expanded because of the time I spent at Cal Arts.
Condola Rashad
#18. When you are writing, you must treat it as the most important thing in the world, even when you know it is not. This helps you take the job seriously and do your best on everything you write.
John Steinbeck
#19. 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
#20. Artists are dishonest creatures really. They foist their version of reality upon us while making it all up. Writers, painters, musicians, auteurs - they're all the same.
Tom Gething From "Sabotage"