The phrase "auteur needs to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the responsibilities or actions that a filmmaker or creator (auteur) should take in their work.
Example: "An auteur needs to have a clear vision for their film to ensure it resonates with the audience."
Alternatives: "auteur must" or "auteur should".
There can't be a life story in postwar American cinema more inspiring than his: the comic genius who started out as a gag-writer for the newspapers, then a standup, and then a film-maker who insisted on auteur prerogative without ever needing to use the word, and who became an evangelist for the masters of European cinema.
Sometimes the rule of thirds needs to be broken especially if executed as smoothly and consistently as the legendary auteur. .
To understand this seemingly sui generis collective of scrappy southern outsiders-turned-industry players and what is fast becoming the most exciting, raucous talent pool since the Miramax backed auteurs of the 90s, we need to look back a decade, to Green's tobacco-country indie dramas George Washington (2000) and, especially, All the Real Girls (2003).
The implication, it seems, is that the bedroom-pop auteur is such a skilled consent whisperer that you don't need to say anything out loud he can already tell you're down based on the look "in your eyes".
Those who dismiss the format as the industrial gimmick (and excuse for price gouging) that it frequently is may need to reconsider now that a handful of certified auteurs have given it a try.
Facebook and Apple, especially, need to be careful not to offend these fickle auteurs as the companies slowly open up their products.
We need more role models; girls need to see women as jobbing directors as well as can-do auteurs.
There's a feeling afoot that if studios want to survive in the long term, they need to stop making movies by committee and start identifying hard-up auteurs to bankroll.
Preminger the craftsman of genius was a puzzle that needed to be solved, and he was taken up in the sixties by English and American auteur critics.
"Although, to their credit, Focus and Universal left me alone and said, 'Shoot it exactly how you want it, and we'll edit it if we need to.'" Working within the Hollywood studio system was a new experience for someone who, by her own admission, has spent most of her career as an auteur.
