Jean-Pierre Melville quotes
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“At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.”
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“I believe that you must be madly in love with cinema to create films. You also need a huge cinematic baggage.”
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“It's the honest point of view of an artist: You have to please.I'd like viewers to come away from my films unsure whether they've understood them. I want to leave them wondering.”
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“I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing.”
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Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 178, 1895.
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“I think the British audience might be more open-minded with some of my imagery and weird choices.”
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