Quotes by Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

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

Littles

Mind

Stupid

Each time, I try to find a family of interesting faces. I follow the tradition of films from the 40s – at this time, there were so many interesting faces in France. I often work with the same because there are not thousands and thousands in France. I’m looking for interesting faces and characters actors, and it’s not for everybody.

Character

Interesting

Trying

For me, the most important word in cinema is the word freedom. For example, in Europe, we’ve got freedom, we’ve got the final cut and that’s something which is marvellous.

Cutting

Europe

Important

I believe in imagination. I was a worker when I was 17. Between 17 and 21, I was a worker in the telephone company and imagination saved my life.

Believe

Imagination

Telephones

I hate to lose time on the set. On the set, you have to go at a good pace, because the clock is your master. For that reason, I have to know exactly what I’m trying to get beforehand.

Hate

Pace

Trying

I like looking back at people’s faces in the dark. I like noticing details that no one else sees. But I hate it in the old American movies when drivers don’t watch the road.

Dark

Hate

People

I like the cinema of people like Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton. I am not keen on trying to reproduce reality – for that you should do documentaries.

People

Reality

Trying

I love science fiction but I don’t like fantastic [cinema]. For example, if you have a magical ring and you can explode the world with it. What are we talking about? You know, it’s not interesting. I don’t like Lord of the Rings. Even Star Wars, for me, I don’t understand this kind of story. But Alien, because the rules of the game are very precise, it could happen. I love science fiction. I have an idea about robots in the future.

Stars

Talking

War

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

Film

Thinking

Toys

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 is completely flexible, and it’s not bound by anything. If you imagine something, you can do it.

Black And White

Color

Thinking

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Actors

Believe

Benefits

Black And White

Brain

Cameras

Character

Children

Choices

Cinema

Color

Cutting

Dark

Directors

Done

Easy

Europe

Exercise

Fighting

Film

France

Frustrating

Generosity

Glasses

Hate

Hollywood

Hurt

Ideas

Imagination

Imagine

Important

Interesting

Kids

Law

Littles

Love You

Majority

Mind

Needs

Negative

Pace

Painful

Paris

People

Philosophy

Play

Political

Proud

Reality

Remember

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Quotes by Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

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

For me, the most important word in cinema is the word freedom. For example, in Europe, we’ve got freedom, we’ve got the final cut and that’s something which is marvellous.

I believe in imagination. I was a worker when I was 17. Between 17 and 21, I was a worker in the telephone company and imagination saved my life.

I hate to lose time on the set. On the set, you have to go at a good pace, because the clock is your master. For that reason, I have to know exactly what I’m trying to get beforehand.

I like looking back at people’s faces in the dark. I like noticing details that no one else sees. But I hate it in the old American movies when drivers don’t watch the road.

I like the cinema of people like Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton. I am not keen on trying to reproduce reality – for that you should do documentaries.

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

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 is completely flexible, and it’s not bound by anything. If you imagine something, you can do it.

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