Jean-Pierre Jeunet

I like the cinema of people like Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton. I am not keen on trying to reproduce reality -…

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

If you make the right choice in casting, your work is nearly done already. You don't have to spend a lot of…

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

When I was a child, I had a ViewMaster, those red box glasses with little discs, so that you can see 3D…

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

“Quand le doigt montre le ciel, l’imbécile regarde le doigt. [When a finger is pointing up to the sky, only a fool…

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

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

In Hollywood everything is formatted, everything is compulsory, so therefore we have to follow the law of benefits and profit and money,…

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

There is a new philosophy for weapons: it's more expensive to hurt people than to kill people. It's terrible. When you have…

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

In general, I have some precise ideas about everything, because the film is completed in my head before we ever start shooting.…

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

In France, it's very suspect when you have a success.

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

I'm very slow, and I do everything myself. I remember I spent three days to change the size of something I had…

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

This is one of the things I don't like so much about French cinema - we have tendency to concentrate on actors…

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

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.…

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

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

I hate to lose time on the set. On the set, you have to go at a good pace, because the clock…

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Each time, I try to find a family of interesting faces. I follow the tradition of films from the 40s - at…

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

If I would want to have a huge audience, I would make American movies, not French movies, because there is a limit…

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

It's always been pretty easy for me to exercise my imagination. The other part of the brain, the one that does mathematics,…

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

I love science fiction but I don't like fantastic [cinema]. For example, if you have a magical ring and you can explode…

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

When I was a kid, I used to escape from my family with my imagination, and I kept this spirit into my…

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

I think of a film as being like a toy train.

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

All day my mind drifts off into fantasies and little stupid jokes.

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

It's always more interesting and more difficult to make something positive than negative. To be negative is very easy.

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

In France, I am so free. I have more freedom than most American directors could dare to even imagine.

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

When you speak about generosity, about something good we have inside ourselves, you're speaking to the majority.

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

When you make something you like and audiences reject it, the experience can be painful. But I've discovered...that when you make something…

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet