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Film Quotes by Alain Resnais
- I am never driven. Every film Ive made has been an assignment.
- When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me-I still watch silent films. I don't think that…
- I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in…
- So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.
- When I was 12 I made some little films with my friends. I tried to make gangster films, like Fantomas, but I remember being very…
- For me an unfavorable initial reaction happens fairly often. For some reason the more time that elapses after the film opens, the more favorable the…
- My films seem to be better understood and better received by the monthly publications. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable.
- I can't see any reason why a film shouldn't be stylized and visually beautiful. I don't think a beautiful set is pretentious.
- A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I'm extremely comfortable with my style.
- I never thought of becoming a director. When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me -…
- Oh, yes, that never happened to me in my life before. It was a risky film, and I warned the producer.
- I'd even say it's a realistic film because that's the way it happens in our heads; that was the idea.
- That's easy to answer: I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn…
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