Don Siegel, a Director Known for His Work With Clint Eastwood, Earns a Retrospective at Manhattan’s Metrograph

Is the American film director Don Siegel (1912-91) on record concerning his thoughts about the auteur theory — that is to say, a critical train of thought that places the person at the helm as the primary engine of a collaborative art form? One can imagine the nuts-and-bolts Chicagoan bristling at the sheer Frenchness of the notion: “Most of my pictures, I’m sorry to say, are about nothing. Because I’m a whore. I work for money. It’s the American way.”