Top 27 Patrice Leconte Quotes
#1. I think the best thing I learned from drawing comics is that it's a great exercise in concision.
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#2. No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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#3. I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films.
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#6. I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation.
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#7. But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.
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#8. I can zero in on subtle things because I'm holding the camera.
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#9. Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!
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#10. As a spectator, I have very eclectic taste, whether it's comedies or action or very small, intimate films. And I feel as a filmmaker I should be able to have that same eclectic taste.
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#13. If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
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#14. Sometimes it only takes three words, so long as they're the right words, to direct an actor in the right way.
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#15. I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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#16. You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.
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#17. What I expect of a movie reviewer is that he should love cinema as much as I do.
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#18. You can work, shop, do everything from home, and I find this unsettling.
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#19. I would rather my films be well-known than I be well-known.
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#20. Working with the same people is so much quicker and frees up your energy for other things.
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#21. I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.
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#22. My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
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#23. I did the drawing and writing - for five years. I made a lot of short films the whole while and I made a promise to myself in front of the mirror that I would stop drawing when I signed my first contract for a feature film.
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#24. Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin.
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#25. What stirs my passion is making cinema, and that means doing different things, making different types of films.
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#26. Love stories that are too simple don't deserve to have films made about them.
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