Jean-Pierre Melville quotes

Jean-Pierre Melville quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“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.”
-- Jean-Pierre Melville

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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.”
-- Jean-Pierre Melville

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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.”
-- Jean-Pierre Melville

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“I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing.”
-- Jean-Pierre Melville

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