Top 44 Arnaud Quotes
#1. The day I stop feeling the pressure and I'm just enjoying myself and taking it easy is when I'm 35, asking for a wild card and playing mixed doubles with Arnaud Clement.
Amelie Mauresmo
#2. Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined I'd be acting in movies.
Mathieu Amalric
#3. Being an actor only came about because Arnaud Desplechin, the guy who did 'Kings and Queen', had this curious idea to think that I could be an actor, but I had never acted before, and I was supposed to direct my own film!
Mathieu Amalric
#4. The politics of austerity, of higher taxes, decided by governments, have lengthened the economic crisis.
Arnaud Montebourg
#5. Happiness is not found, it is created. Happiness does not depend on all that we lack, but on the way in which we use all that we have
Arnaud Desjardins
#6. I guess that in this process of trying to incorporate or to be faithful to the films I admire so much, that's how I start to find my own voice. The admiration I have for filmmakers, this gratitude, perhaps that's my only way to become specific.
Arnaud Desplechin
#7. I love some films with very silent characters, people who don't speak, but I wouldn't be able to do that.
Arnaud Desplechin
#8. I think there comes a point in probably most father-son relationships where the son kind of starts becoming the parent.
Francois Arnaud
#9. I watched 'E.T.' when I was a kid every day. Well, not all of it every day; I'd pause it and start over again. But I've watched 'E.T.' about 400 times in my life.
Francois Arnaud
#10. I think one of the most important American films is 'Jackie Brown,' which is such a humble depiction of humble characters but so powerful. The film was pure depiction of the American poverty of the '90s.
Arnaud Desplechin
#12. You definitely shouldn't watch the special features before you watch the actual series.
Francois Arnaud
#13. The law commands us to do what we would do naturally if we only had love. The Way consists of finding that love, which then becomes the law.
Arnaud Desjardins
#14. On days when the sky is grey, the sun has not disappeared forever.
Arnaud Desjardins
#15. Playing along in the yard,
The blue sky sparkles against the earthly green,
Creating such harmony!
A pond, nearby.
Untroubled waters mirrors the ether's dreams.
A grand echo of my Divine Heart!
I am One
Arnaud Saint-Paul
#16. Kill them all; for God knoweth them that are His. (Tuez-les tous; Dieu reconnaitra les siens.)
Arnaud Amalric
#17. I just go wherever work brings me. I share a house with friends in L.A., and I share a house with friends in Montreal when I'm there.
Francois Arnaud
#18. I'm not sure I'll find acting satisfying creatively forever. If you get the good roles, it's great - if you have the freedom to choose your projects and not just do anything and everything.
Francois Arnaud
#20. Today, the Pope is only a religious figure. At the time of 'The Borgias,' he was also a political leader, a financial leader, and the head of an army. I think popes are much less relevant today than they were then.
Francois Arnaud
#22. It's hard work to find your own voice and not to copycat anything.
Arnaud Desplechin
#23. Life is movement. The more life there is, the more flexibility there is. The more fluid you are, the more you are alive.
Arnaud Desjardins
#24. Each time I'm starting to work on a film, even if I love to settle the plot in the real world, I start to think about the plot as a fairy tale, or a dream, or a nightmare ... As if it was the best way to tell the truth about characters or narration, instead of realism.
Arnaud Desplechin
#25. As an actor, as much as I'm interested in how you make movies and TV shows, even as a kid, I've always hated making of featurettes and special features on DVDs. I think it breaks the spell.
Francois Arnaud
#26. Usually in France we prefer to say bad things about the Nouvelle Vague, but I'm always impressed with its freedom and the fact of not making a film to give your opinion but just as a piece of art, which to me means the Nouvelle Vague.
Arnaud Desplechin
#27. I hate this idea in the Cinematheque that you must watch silent movies with no music, like it's a piece of art. It's not true.
Arnaud Desplechin
#28. How can I progress on the Way thanks to every day difficulties.
Arnaud Desjardins
#29. I didn't act professionally before going to drama school. I don't know if I had the confidence. I didn't think I'd get in when I first auditioned for drama school, and then I did.
Francois Arnaud
#30. There is rap music in all my films. In 'La Vie des Morts,' there is rap music too. It's because I'm French, and when it appeared in 1978, it was so new, it set off my musical imagination.
Arnaud Desplechin
#31. I started studying theater in school, and then I got into drama school at, like, 19, and it was a national drama school in Montreal, and so it was just you and nine other students for three years, and it was really intense.
Francois Arnaud
#32. Saying yes, opening up, and loving: these are the keys that will unlock the prison door.
Arnaud Desjardins
#38. The first play that I saw was 'Cyrano,' and I remember going home - I was like nine years old - and trying to learn the monologues.
Francois Arnaud
#39. Mindful and creative, a child who has neither a past, nor examples to follow, nor value judgments, simply lives, speaks and plays in freedom.
Arnaud Desjardins
#40. Terrible or not, difficult or not, the only thing that is beautiful, noble, religious, and mystical is to be happy.
Arnaud Desjardins
#41. Life is expressed in a perpetual sequence of changes. The birth of the child is the death of the baby, just as the birth of the adolescent is the death of the child.
Arnaud Desjardins
#42. I remember the first time I read Freud, I was 25 or 30, and I was expecting it to be about the Oedipus complex. But what I actually discovered confirmed my own common experience, that you also had little boys who loved their fathers and little girls who loved their mothers.
Arnaud Desplechin
#43. I'm an absolute fan of Angela Bassett. I think she's a great, great actress. In the biopics, she is so moving. She's very rare. It's something that doesn't happen that much, to see an actress inventing a new way of showing 'woman' onscreen, and a new way of being beautiful.
Arnaud Desplechin
#44. I never rehearse scenes with the whole ensemble, because I need to preserve some surprise. Instead, I work with the cast individually on their characters.
Arnaud Desplechin
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