Quotes by Jean-Pierre Jeunet - Page 1

I think of a film as being like a toy train.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet / Film Director
Film
Thinking
Toys
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In France, it's very suspect when you have a success.
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France
Suspects
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All day my mind drifts off into fantasies and little stupid jokes.
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Littles
Mind
Stupid
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In France, I am so free. I have more freedom than most American directors could dare to even imagine.
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Directors
France
Imagine
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I've never made any concessions, so I am 100% responsible for my films. This makes me feel very proud.
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Film
Proud
Responsible
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In the States, I learned to fight for every idea. Sometimes, a director has to be a tyrant to keep the quality.
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Fighting
Ideas
Tyrants
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When you speak about generosity, about something good we have inside ourselves, you're speaking to the majority.
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Generosity
Majority
Speak
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It's always more interesting and more difficult to make something positive than negative. To be negative is very easy.
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Easy
Interesting
Negative
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I write scripts by myself. It's not for everybody. It's someone's personal work. I need to be in love with the subject.
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Needs
Scripts
Writing
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I believe in imagination. I was a worker when I was 17. Between 17 and 21, I was a worker in the telephone company and imagination saved my life.
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Imagination
Believe
Telephones
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I like the cinema of people like Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton. I am not keen on trying to reproduce reality - for that you should do documentaries.
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People
Reality
Trying
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I'm very slow, and I do everything myself. I remember I spent three days to change the size of something I had sketched because I felt it was too small.
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Remember
Size
Three
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In Hollywood everything is formatted, everything is compulsory, so therefore we have to follow the law of benefits and profit and money, let us say the law of Hollywood.
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Benefits
Hollywood
Law
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It's always been pretty easy for me to exercise my imagination. The other part of the brain, the one that does mathematics, is a nightmare for me. It doesn't work at all.
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Imagination
Brain
Exercise
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For me, the most important word in cinema is the word freedom. For example, in Europe, we've got freedom, we've got the final cut and that's something which is marvellous.
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Cutting
Europe
Important
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I like looking back at people's faces in the dark. I like noticing details that no one else sees. But I hate it in the old American movies when drivers don't watch the road.
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Dark
Hate
People
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If you make the right choice in casting, your work is nearly done already. You don't have to spend a lot of time directing the actors, because they're so well suited to the parts.
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Actors
Choices
Done
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I hate to lose time on the set. On the set, you have to go at a good pace, because the clock is your master. For that reason, I have to know exactly what I'm trying to get beforehand.
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Hate
Pace
Trying
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In general, I have some precise ideas about everything, because the film is completed in my head before we ever start shooting. With casting, I am always present, even for the smallest character.
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Character
Ideas
Shooting
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When I was a kid, I used to escape from my family with my imagination, and I kept this spirit into my adult life. This doesn't always happen. All children have imagination, but for some it doesn't carry over.
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Kids
Imagination
Children
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I would be wary about working in the States because freedom is an important thing. I have made seven films and even on Alien Resurrection I had the freedom. I had to fight and struggle a bit but in the end I won out.
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Fighting
Important
Struggle
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This is one of the things I don't like so much about French cinema - we have tendency to concentrate on actors and dialogue and we don't care so much about the visual aspect. I love when you use all the elements at your disposal.
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Actors
Cinema
Use
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I thought all I had to do was to buy a camera and become a film director. So when I left school I worked at a telephone company, which gave me the money to buy the basic equipment including the camera, the projector and the screen.
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Cameras
Directors
School
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I think we're entering a new period of filmmaking that's analogous to switching from black-and-white to color, or from silent to sound. The medium is completely flexible, and it's not bound by anything. If you imagine something, you can do it.
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Black And White
Color
Thinking
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When critics love your film, you love critics. When they hate your film, you hate critics. It's the same everywhere, but maybe especially in France, where we have pretty good critics, except for three or four newspapers that are really dogmatic.
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Hate
Love You
Three
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When you make something you like and audiences reject it, the experience can be painful. But I've discovered...that when you make something you aren't exactly satisfied with, and someone tells you it's great, that's even mor...e painful and frustrating.
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Frustrating
Painful
Satisfied
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There is a new philosophy for weapons: it's more expensive to hurt people than to kill people. It's terrible. When you have a band of guys on the battlefield, if someone is dead, he's dead. If someone is injured then they have to take care of him, so six people are busy.
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Hurt
People
Philosophy
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Each time, I try to find a family of interesting faces. I follow the tradition of films from the 40s - at this time, there were so many interesting faces in France. I often work with the same because there are not thousands and thousands in France. I'm looking for interesting faces and characters actors, and it's not for everybody.
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Character
Interesting
Trying
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When I was a child, I had a ViewMaster, those red box glasses with little discs, so that you can see 3D images. They were my first steps in cinema. I was eight years old, I would cut and change the order of the images and that's how I created films that subsequently I recorded and projected and showed my friends. So I already took my first steps in 3D when I was eight years old.
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Children
Cutting
Glasses
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If I would want to have a huge audience, I would make American movies, not French movies, because there is a limit of course with French language. If I prefer to shoot in my own language, it is to play with my language, to play in my Paris, and I have complete freedom in France. It's so amazing. If American directors could imagine how free I am, they would have asked for political asylum immediately.
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Paris
Play
Political
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I love science fiction but I don't like fantastic [cinema]. For example, if you have a magical ring and you can explode the world with it. What are we talking about? You know, it's not interesting. I don't like Lord of the Rings. Even Star Wars, for me, I don't understand this kind of story. But Alien, because the rules of the game are very precise, it could happen. I love science fiction. I have an idea about robots in the future.
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War
Stars
Talking
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