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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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