A great article on The Guardian site asks: Is great cinema ever the work of A Single Man?.
I have to say that I have always fallen into the crowd who think the auteur theory is wrong. A film production is far too much of a collaborative effort to ever be the work of one person, no matter how much they do.
In that I class a lot of things. Some directors, take Robert Rodriguez for example, do a lot of hands-on, from writing the script to operating the camera to writing and playing the music (as Rodriguez does), but they still have help, direction and are impacted by other people on set and in pre- and post-production.
So, in my view, the only people who believe the auteur theory is anything but hogwash are theorists who have never been on set or involved in a production.
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