Cinematic Auteur Quotes

But, I'm a big Johnny Cash and a big Lou Reed fan and a Fellini fan.

An Ingmar Bergman film would probably owe a sizeable bulk of its import and its direction and its quality to the directorial end and to the director because it's uniquely a Bergman film. But that again is not the general - no, that's much more the exception than the rule.

I love film noir, so Billy Wilder is like my favorite director of all time.

Fellini was more in love with breasts than Russ Meyer, more wracked with guilt than Ingmar Bergman, more of a flamboyant showman than Busby Berkeley... Amarcord seems almost to flow from the camera, as anecdotes will flow from one who has told them often and knows they work. This was the last of his films made for no better reason than Fellini wanted to make it.

I was always a fan of Nic. With his movie, you know it's "A Nic Refn Movie."

I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.

John McTiernan, the director, is not Ingmar Bergman. He does action-adventure movies.

I'm a huge Paul Thomas Anderson fan.

I love Spike Jonze. He's brilliant.

I think Woody Allen is pretty much of a genius. I'm thinking of filmmakers every century or two, but I've never had the luck to meet them. People who create their absolutely own world and are totally inimitable.

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.

Dibakar Banerjee comes across as an intellectual filmmaker. That is a deception.

Akira Kurosawa is the pictorial William Shakespeare of our time.

Nobody makes movies like Oliver Stone.

My Tarkovsky idolatry was at its peak, but 'Nostalghia' really didn't do anything for me. 'The Sacrifice' was similarly disappointing for me. Next thing we knew, he was dead.