Auteur theory Quote by Lloyd Kaufman

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 got picked for very unique and independent filmmaking experiences with auteurs. And I'm so lucky.

— Laura Dern

I am choosy about my films, period - whether it's my father directing it or anybody else.

— Pooja Bhatt

I was really fortunate that I went to a high school where we actually had a film theory program.

— David Brooks

When I studied with Nicholas Ray he was always telling us, "If you want to make films, watch a lot of films, but don't…

— Jim Jarmusch

“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 started to make my own films, however small and however independent they were, from the beginning. And so, even though I was nobody,…

— Mira Nair

I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a…

— George Lucas

There's no such thing as "an auteurist filmmaker." Every film directors is an auteur. We only make films that we do because we cannot…

— Lee Yoon-ki

When I was in film school I had this great professor, Jerzy Antczak, a Polish filmmaker, and Joe Russo of the Russo Brothers were…

— Justin Lin

I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.

— Antoine Fuqua

I studied cinema at the university so I had a very classical approach to it. I studied all those silent films, and then the…

— Gaspard Ulliel