If there is an auteur who influenced me - and there is only one - that is Charlie Chaplin. And he never won an Oscar.
Im very strongly in favor of the auteur theory.
I don't really believe in the auteur theory.
People know that I have a great love for cinema. Not just for commercial cinema, but for the 'cinema d'auteur. ' But to me, two of the great 'auteurs' are actually actors and they both happen to be French. One is Alain Delon and the other is Jean-Paul Belmondo.
Un auteur ga" te tout quand il veut trop bien faire. An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.