Complex Creature Quotes by Jean Renoir

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• In this world, there is one terrible thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.
• A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.
• The foundation of all civilization is loitering.
• There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.
• The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons.
• To the question, ‘Is the cinema an art?’ my answer is, ‘what does it matter?’... You can make films or you can…
• Nature is millions of things. And there are millions of ways of understanding its preoccupations.
• The only things that are important in life are the things you remember.
• The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience, and a little love, we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature…
• I believe that perfection handicaps cinema.
• Everyone has his reasons.
• A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he…

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