Greg Egan Quotes

I just wanted to work with David Lynch.

I am a huge fan of Quentin Tarantino, who takes time to figure out what his next movie is.

I knew Spike Jonze would do something really interesting with it.

I still don't feel I know Hitchcock at all. I find that the more one looks, the more elusive he becomes. But my admiration for Hitchcock the filmmaker remains undiminished. He is a giant of the cinema and the darkness in him informs his cinematic language. You can't separate one from the other.

I'm a huge Robert Altman fan and don't take issue with his filmmaking, as eccentric as it is. But I just think 'Nashville' was a world he didn't know.

The movies I respond to are by guys like the Coen brothers and Edgar Wright, where it's hard to fit them into any one box.

I like David Lynch; I like Stanley Kubrick. I'm a big fan of Kubrick.

I think that David Lynch, he lives in a zone, and he expresses that zone to us with everything he does.

I don't quite know what an auteur is.

If someone says Wes Anderson is an auteur, I'll believe it 100 percent. Fine. He's an auteur, but I'm not.

You must always watch when David Lynch makes anything.

The thing that interested me, there are so many filmmakers I admire - like David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino - they have these themes where there's not much going on, but they were suspenseful.

I mean, I'm always happy to be compared with Scorsese!

When I discovered European filmmakers, it affected me so deeply. It redefined what cinema could be. I mean, 'Blow-Up' ends with a dead body and mimes playing tennis. What?

'Pierrot le Fou' is something I keep coming back to. It's so surreal but still really engaging - it proves narratives within narratives are a landscape that can be pursued well.

I'd love to work with David Lynch. I'm such a big fan. He's a genius.

I'd love to do a Michel Gondry film. That would be ideal! I'd love to do an Almodovar film; you know, I think he's very, very talented. I don't care that people say he's pretentious. So what? He's a good director; he can be pretentious.

Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out are his press conferences, because he's so brilliant.

I don't really believe in the auteur theory.

I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.

Hitchcock had a very strange mind.

It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.

When I was going to film school, before film school, my hero was David Lynch.

I'm sure 'Boxing Helena' will eclipse 'Twin Peaks' and Audrey Home for me. If people here go see it.

If I tried to somehow wrap my head around the fact that Francis Ford Coppola directed my first movie, there's never a slot into which that ever fits in your mind.