Jean Renoir quotes
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“To the question, ‘Is the cinema an art?’ my answer is, ‘what does it matter?’... You can make films or you can cultivate a garden. Both have as much claim to being called an art as a poem by Verlaine or a painting by Delacroix… Art is ‘making.’ The art of poetry is the art of making poetry. The art of love is the art of making love... My father never talked to me about art. He could not bear the word.”
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“When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting.”
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“A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.”
-- Jean RenoirSource : Quoted in Leslie Halliwell, Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion (1993)
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“Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?”
-- Jean RenoirSource : 'My Life and My Films' (1974) 'Nana'
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“The only things that are important in life are the things you remember.”
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“The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons.”
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“A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.”
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“The real hell of life is that everyone has his reasons.”
-- Jean RenoirSource : Jean Renoir, Bert Cardullo (2005). “Jean Renoir: Interviews”, p.17, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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“I believe that perfection handicaps cinema.”
-- Jean RenoirSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience, and a little love, we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called man.”
-- Jean RenoirSource : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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“Nature is millions of things. And there are millions of ways of understanding its preoccupations.”
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“There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.”
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“The foundation of all civilization is loitering.”
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“In this world, there is one terrible thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.”
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“The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.”
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