When you make something you like and audiences reject it, the experience can be painful. But I've discovered...that when you make something you aren't exactly satisfied with, and someone tells you it's great, that's even mor...e painful and frustrating. — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share Image
I like the cinema of people like Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton. I am not keen on trying to reproduce reality - for that… — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share
If you make the right choice in casting, your work is nearly done already. You don't have to spend a lot of time directing… — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share
When I was a child, I had a ViewMaster, those red box glasses with little discs, so that you can see 3D images. They… — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share
“Quand le doigt montre le ciel, l’imbécile regarde le doigt. [When a finger is pointing up to the sky, only a fool looks at… — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share
In the States, I learned to fight for every idea. Sometimes, a director has to be a tyrant to keep the quality. — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share
In Hollywood everything is formatted, everything is compulsory, so therefore we have to follow the law of benefits and profit and money, let us… — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share
There is a new philosophy for weapons: it's more expensive to hurt people than to kill people. It's terrible. When you have a band… — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share
In general, I have some precise ideas about everything, because the film is completed in my head before we ever start shooting. With casting,… — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share
I'm very slow, and I do everything myself. I remember I spent three days to change the size of something I had sketched because… — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share
This is one of the things I don't like so much about French cinema - we have tendency to concentrate on actors and dialogue… — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share
I think we're entering a new period of filmmaking that's analogous to switching from black-and-white to color, or from silent to sound. The medium… — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share
I write scripts by myself. It's not for everybody. It's someone's personal work. I need to be in love with the subject. — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share
I hate to lose time on the set. On the set, you have to go at a good pace, because the clock is your… — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share
Each time, I try to find a family of interesting faces. I follow the tradition of films from the 40s - at this time,… — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share
