I'm very strongly in favor of the auteur theory.

Im very strongly in favor of the auteur theory.

— George Hickenlooper

My roommate at Yale University introduced me to the auteur theory of filmmaking. I soon became a big fan of the works of John…

— Lloyd Kaufman

I don't really believe in the auteur theory.

— Park Chan-wook

“They say that a director always makes the same film. I try to make, as François Truffaut said, the next film in opposition to…

— Alain Resnais

I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.

— Abraham Lincoln

The public is strongly in favor of the Kyoto Protocols, so strongly in favor that a majority of Bush voters thought that he was…

— Noam Chomsky

My reputation for writing quickly and effortlessly notwithstanding, I am strongly in favor of intelligent, even fastidious revision, which is, or certainly should be,…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.

— Robert Hall

There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors

— Francois Truffaut

As a loyal believer in the Auteur Theory I first felt editing was but the logical consequence of the way in which one shoots.…

— Bernardo Bertolucci-Film Director of The Last Emperor etc

I believe we have two ideas about how movies are made in our heads. Idealizations. Platonic ideals. One of them is of a movie…

— Errol Morris

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…

— Billy Wilder

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.

— Alan Parker

I believe that any auteur categorised in terms of an -ist or an -ism wouldn't be able to capture the complex essence of human…

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

My ultimate dream was just to be an auteur.

— Dee Rees