Almost overnight, film westerns, which had once been considered mindless entertainment, were transformed into the personal visions of auteur directors.

Loach has denied his status as an auteur director.

"Sure, it was easier to be an auteur director at a smaller theater," he says.

Is the work of these auteur directors any good?

But he sees in Peter Weir the kind of European-style auteur director with whom he can connect.

Derek Walcott and I didn't want an auteur director.

'Second Cinema' is the European art film, which rejects Hollywood conventions but is centred on the individual expression of the auteur director.

Brecht himself, though celebrated as playwright, was also a metaphorical auteur director as daring as any who today raises purist hackles.

Her emotionally intense role in Babel has led to her being noticed by many international directors, such as Rian Johnson, auteur director of Brick.

With the rise of the auteur director, you began to have invasive interference from the filmmaker.