Dardenne Quotes

#1. If film critics could destroy a movie, Michael Bay and Adam Sandler would be working at Starbucks. If film critics could make a movie a hit, the Dardenne brothers would be courted by every studio in town.

Alonso Duralde

#2. Filmmaking has always involved pairs: a director coupled with a producer, a director alongside an editor ... The notion of couples is not foreign to cinema.

Luc Dardenne

#3. The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

James Jones

#4. Film-makers in Belgium are seen as arts and crafts makers. It is a small country. There is not really a film industry there at all.

Luc Dardenne

#5. No Life is led by without faltering.

Van.C.L

#6. In documentaries, you're confronted with reality; you can not manipulate or move it.

Jean-Pierre Dardenne

#7. It's counterproductive. The problem with sentimentality is that it kills the emotion.

Jean-Pierre Dardenne

#8. If it weren't for Phoenician blinds, it'd be curtains for all of us.

Tom Robbins

#9. My hair had grown out long and shaggy - not in that sexy-young-rock-star kind of way but in that time-to-take-Rover-to-the-groomer kind of way.

Jim Butcher

#10. The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good, must give prominence to moral as well as intellectual instruction.

Sheldon Jackson

#11. Filming is like a house, you have to feel comfortable in it.

Luc Dardenne

#12. In Europe, there are many filmmakers working in the same territory: immigration, and the things that are most disruptive to European life today. That's not a judgment. I think it's good that cinema looks at such things.

Jean-Pierre Dardenne

#13. The truth is always less interesting than the fiction.

Jean-Pierre Dardenne