Quotes by Jean Renoir

Jean Renoir

A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.

Film Directing

Inspiring

Movie

A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.

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Children

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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 the film maker interests me more than the copy of an object.

Artist

Perfect

Photography

Everyone has his reasons.

Reason

I am against great themes and great subjects… You can’t film an idea. The camera is an instrument for recording physical impact.

Cameras

Ideas

Impact

I believe that perfection handicaps cinema.

Believe

Cinema

Perfection

Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?

Betrayal

Succeed

Nature is millions of things. And there are millions of ways of understanding its preoccupations.

Preoccupation

Understanding

Way

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.

Birthday

People

Years

The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons.

Awful

Life Is

Reason

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Quotes by Jean Renoir

Jean Renoir

A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.

A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.

Everyone has his reasons.

I am against great themes and great subjects… You can’t film an idea. The camera is an instrument for recording physical impact.

I believe that perfection handicaps cinema.

Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?

Nature is millions of things. And there are millions of ways of understanding its preoccupations.

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.

The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons.

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