Jean Renoir Quotes

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

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#2. When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting.

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#3. All great art is abstract.

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#4. The truly terrible thing is, everyone has his reasons

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#5. A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it up and makes it again.

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#6. The real hell of life is everyone has his reasons.

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#7. The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience, and a little love, we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called man.

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#8. Everyone has his reasons." Octave (Jean Renoir) in "The Rules of the Game.

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#9. Wilshire Boulevard ... It has no smell to it.

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#10. There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.

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#11. The only things that are important in life are the things you remember.

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#12. Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?

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

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

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#15. The truly terrible thing is that everybody has their reasons.

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#16. 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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#17. The real hell of life is that everyone has his reasons.

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#18. The foundation of all civilization is loitering.

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#19. The really terrible thing is that everyone has his reasons.

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#20. Everyone has his reasons.

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#21. I believe that perfection handicaps cinema.

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#22. You see, in this world, there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.

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