The phrase "auteur of all" is not standard in written English and may be confusing.
It could be used in a context discussing someone who is considered the ultimate creator or originator of all works in a particular field.
Example: "In the world of cinema, some might argue that he is the auteur of all, shaping the industry with his unique vision."
Alternatives: "master creator" or "supreme author".
Though he never attracted the same level of attention as Phil Spector or George Martin, Dudgeon drew praise from perhaps the most famous auteur producer of all, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson.
He said: "I have the impression this is the most auteur-specialist of all film festivals and I never thought I would come here.
It is the anti-auteur work of all time, a film shaped by the very zeitgeist it took on".
Alex Oscar Dupont – his working name is an anagram of the first two – came to prominence in the early-80s with the intimate, ultra-stylised romance Boy Meets Girl, and from there went the way of all auteurs, wasting time and money on long-gestating passion projects.
It's clear where that comes from in the interview, animated by Patrick Smith who dresses the iconic auteur into all manner of macabre situations below.
Prior to that, anyone with a mic in their hand was first of all answerable to the beat, to the producer-DJ auteur, and pirate radio was all about "rolling out" the instrumentals – building a steady, if restless momentum.
For the past 30 years, an underground movie theater in Berlin has hosted an annual summer retrospective of all seven of the feature-length films of Soviet auteur Andrei Tarkovsky.
But in spite of all, these men are able to cloak themselves with the title of auteur and visionary, and are very rarely ever held truly accountable.
Budding indie directors, beware: the life of the auteur isn't all soundtrack shopping and Zooey Deschanel brunch dates.
The New Wave argued, above all, that the director should be seen as the principal creator or "auteur" of a movie: not the writers or producers.
