Film Quotes by Jacques Rivette

When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.

— Jacques Rivette

And I took a long time to appreciate Lynch.

— Jacques Rivette

Kubrick is a machine, a mutant, a Martian. He has no human feeling whatsoever. But it's great when the machine films other machines, as…

— Jacques Rivette

I reject the word 'script' entirely-at any rate in the usual sense. I prefer the old usage-usually scenario-which it had in the Commedia dell'Arte,…

— Jacques Rivette

Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.

— Jacques Rivette

And the fact that I see so many films really seems to amaze certain people.

— Jacques Rivette

And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea…

— Jacques Rivette

Whereas with Sirk, everything is always filmed. No matter what the script, he's always a real director.

— Jacques Rivette

Their films would probably be better if they'd seen a few more films, which runs counter to this idiotic theory that you run the…

— Jacques Rivette

For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave.

— Jacques Rivette

Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.

— Jacques Rivette

I guess I like a lot of directors. Or at least I try to.

— Jacques Rivette