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 put on clothes that don't fit us.
We once believed we were auteurs but we weren't. We had no idea, really. Film is over. It's sad nobody is really exploring it. But what to do? And anyway, with mobile phones and everything, everyone is now an auteur.
Sometimes you see auteur TV shows and movies, and those are great.
I don't really believe in the auteur theory.
In the theater you can chain a blue-assed baboon in the stalls and with a good script, good actors, and a good set you'd have what is called a production. With the cinema someone has to know about lenses and fine things. I have no time for the "auteur de cinema. " To me, it's meaningless.
I'm one of the most fortunate guys around,I still get to do those kinds of movies, and then I get to do Green Lantern, and I get to do Buried with an auteur like Rodrigo Cortés. I enjoy that I can get away with that.
If there is an auteur who influenced me - and there is only one - that is Charlie Chaplin. And he never won an Oscar.
I am very grateful that the Russian budget has a yearly budget for film. And usually this budget goes to "auteur" cinema, which actually needs this support and which indeed contributes to creating "national culture".
