Jacques Rivette Quotes

#1. I guess I like a lot of directors. Or at least I try to.

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#2. And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea what I saw, all I know is that I left the theater floating six feet above the ground.

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#3. Whereas with Sirk, everything is always filmed. No matter what the script, he's always a real director.

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#4. Kubrick is a machine, a mutant, a Martian. He has no human feeling whatsoever. But it's great when the machine films other machines, as in 2001.

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#5. For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave.

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#6. Their films would probably be better if they'd seen a few more films, which runs counter to this idiotic theory that you run the risk of being influenced if you see too much.

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#7. Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.

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#8. When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.

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#9. And I took a long time to appreciate Lynch.

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#10. Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.

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#11. And the fact that I see so many films really seems to amaze certain people.

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