Anne Fontaine quotes

Making films is - or should be - a very personal experience. You shouldn't listen to anybody, other than the people you choose to listen to.
-- Anne Fontaine

#People #Film #Should

In spite of all the terrible things that happen in our world, hope can - and must - prevail.
-- Anne Fontaine

#Our World #Spite #Terrible

I am blessed to live and work in [France,] a country where women filmmakers are by and large not unfairly treated. So I wouldn't have much to contribute regarding issues faced as a female director.
-- Anne Fontaine

#Country #Blessed #Issues

When characters are drifting away from the "correct road", or in fact from any road they were supposed to follow, they lose control, they find other goals...and possibly their real selves. All these moments of changes, of self-questioning, are like an engine to the films I make - that's where lie the dynamics I'm interested in as a director.
-- Anne Fontaine

#Real #Lying #Character

Hollywood is still the cradle of many myths, including the one of eternal youth. I find it odd that the very notion of desire, when applied to a woman over 40, is turned into a pathology or a mockery in a number of films. But Hollywood is not the only place to blame, by far. This is just a rendition, possibly magnified by the power of movies, of a general state of things, social, cultural and political.
-- Anne Fontaine

#Numbers #Political #Desire

The biggest challenge [for movie Agnus dei] - working in a foreign country with a predominantly Polish cast and crew - also proved to be the biggest blessing. Being surrounded by all this change , [both] culturally [and] linguistically, was a new and refreshing inspiration.
-- Anne Fontaine

#Country #Inspiration #Blessing

I don't necessarily agree with everything I read about my films, but I wouldn't highlight a specific misconception: If people think this or that about myself or my work, they must have their reasons.
-- Anne Fontaine

#Thinking #People #Film

We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.

AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FILM. Exacting, enraging and revelatory. A clear, temperate and devastating account of high level arrogance and incompetence.

Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.

In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.

This is what the Sabbath should feel like. A pause. Not just a minor pause, but a major pause. Not just lowering the volume, but a muting. As the famous rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel put it, the Sabbath is a sanctuary in time.

The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.

Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?

He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.