Band Quote by Jean-Pierre Jeunet

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

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

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

“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

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, let us…

— 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. With casting,…

— 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 sketched because…

— 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 and dialogue…

— 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. The medium…

— 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