Sentence examples for auteur status from inspiring English sources

Screenwriter and novelist Alex Garland upgrades to full auteur status, directing his own original script.

Germany's greatest living documentarian, feature film-maker and former Klaus Kinski wrangler has parlayed his cult auteur status into some juicy acting gigs.

Quentin Tarantino has always been something of a fanboy flapjaw, happily swapping his auteur status for that of a gushing cinephile.

And also of Pixar, one of the few companies after Disney (which acquired it in 2006) to achieve something like auteur status in its own right.

As far as acting in features goes, you could work with a big-name younger director with auteur status who isn't going to be intimidated by you.

Historians of cinema may be slow or begrudging in appreciating his achievement, but if auteur status is conferred by the possession of a recognizable style and set of themes, Mr. Hughes's place in the pantheon cannot be denied.

This extraordinary twist to "mass media" has catapulted many an everyday YouTube auteur to celebrity-status, while turning ideas born in a garage or dorm room into Fortune 500 companies.

Nobody claimed for Arzner the status of auteur, or even pioneer.

Centred on a psychopathic tennis coach, loosely based (like Crimes and Misdemeanours) on Crime and Punishment, and perhaps signalling the start of Dostoevsky's comeback as a film source; though he's unlikely to recapture his status in "auteur" arthouse cinema's heyday, his IMDb page shows six further projects due for release in 2014.

They (we) have not, however, been allowed the distinguished status of auteur, creators revered for their original aesthetic vision.

Today, it is possible for a lone director to claim the status of auteur with a consumer-grade digital camera, a laptop, and a web site to exhibit their work.