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• n  a filmmaker who has a personal style and keeps creative control over his or her works

• On the sound stage of The Passion in Rome's Cinecitta studio, the famed auteur prepares a scene for Maia Morgenstern, the Romanian actress playing the Virgin Mary.
• Alive, the Woodman has not been residing in the auteur empyrean for the past couple of decades.
• It established the former video-store geek as the auteur of the decade, proved that the Weinsteins at Miramax could produce films as well as import them, sparked the third or .

News & Articles

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• 10 Questions for Joss Whedon
  For this week’s issue of TIME, Belinda Luscombe sat down with television auteur and filmmaker Joss Whedon to ask him a few questions, and TIME’s cameras were there. Whedon answered questions about why he’s drawn to strong female characters, what it was like to grow up in a creative household and why superheroes are so successful at the box office these days. Plus, he explains why a man famous ...
  June 6, 2013 - Time Magazine
• Rachel Kushner’s ambitious new novel scares male critics
  When Rachel Kushner -- not a venerable male auteur -- writes the Great American Novel, male reviewers are flummoxed        
  June 5, 2013 - Salon.com

Quotes

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• Johnny Depp in Reuters Canada
  He is a rare breed in today's cinema,said Depp, wearing a white tuxedo. "Beyond that he is a true original, a true artist, a true auteur. He's my favorite director and friend."
• John Rhys-Davies in TheDenverChannel.com
  That's what so many people don't understand at all -- it's about telling a story,the Welsh-born Rhys-Davies said. "Nevermind the highfalutin film school crap about an auteur theory and all that nonsense. In the end, it's about people...
• Ang Lee in ABS CBN News
  After two big movies, I decided to make a small movie that really moved me,said Lee, who flew back from the Toronto Film Festival to take the award. "I have the impression this is the most auteur-specialist of all film festivals and I...