I am against great themes and great subjects... You can't film an idea. The camera is an instrument for recording physical impact. — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
All technical refinements discourage me. Perfect photography, larger screens, hi-fi sound, all make it possible for mediocrities slavishly to reproduce nature; and this reproduction bores me. What interests me is the interpretation of life by an artist. The personality of… — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth. — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
“A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it up and makes it again.” — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again. — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience, and a little love, we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is… — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
“Among seekers of truth, painters perhaps come closest to discovering the secret of the balance of forces of the universe, and hence of man's… — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
The only things that are important in life are the things you remember. — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
To the question, ‘Is the cinema an art?’ my answer is, ‘what does it matter?’... You can make films or you can cultivate a garden. Both have as much claim to being called an art as a poem by Verlaine or a painting by Delacroix… Art is ‘making.’ The art of poetry is the art of making poetry. The art… — Jean Renoir Copy Share
Goodbye Mr. Zanuck: it certainly has been a pleasure working at 16th Century Fox. — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not… — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
I am against great themes and great subjects... You can't film an idea. The camera is an instrument for recording physical impact. — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
