Top 10 Filmmakers-In-Overcoats

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“Make visible what, without you, might never have been seen” – Robert Bresson.
Thank-you @Hanna1960.

 

“When humour can be made to alternate with humour, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it’s just wonderful.” – Francois Truffaut.

“And yet because of my attempt at sincerity I have been condemned, hooted at, reviled; filthy rumors have been circulated about me, not about my characterizations but about me personally, my private self.” — Erich von Stroheim.
Thanks @SkotArmstrong.

“In the end, everything’s a gag.” – Charlie Chaplin.
Here with that other great actor-auteur, Vittorio De Sica.
Thanks to @GloriaBB2.

“For all of us it’s the things that won’t work that keep our interest.” – Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
And thanks to @12pt9 for this one.

“There’s something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories” – Stanley Kubrick.
@BakerDave76 supplied this magnificent parka.

“Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic coincides with the ethical.” – Andrei Tarkovsky.
Thanks again @SkotArmstrong.

“The actors are also the directors of a film…they have reactions you hadn’t forseen. Their reactions are often very good, and it would be crazy not to take advantage of them.” – Jean Renoir, here with Roland Toutain on the set of The Rules Of The Game.

“I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.” Alfred Hitchcock, here in a dressing we’ll pretend is an overcoat for the purposes of the list.
Nominated by @Bakerdave76.

“There is no point in having sharp images when you’ve fuzzy ideas.” – Jean-Luc Godard, here with Anna Karina.
And thanks to @TheWaitIsOgre.

 

 

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