Desplechin Quotes

#1. Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined I'd be acting in movies.

Mathieu Amalric

#2. 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

#3. It's hard work to find your own voice and not to copycat anything.

Arnaud Desplechin

#4. We're all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like they know how to sail but there is no captain and we are all only passengers aboard the same sinking ship.

Donal O'Callaghan

#5. Flexibility. Oh, that's pretty clearly saying that what Donald Trump said to The New York Times is very different than what he's saying to the American people. He is not the real deal. He is a phony.

Mitt Romney

#6. It is not to say that everything is fine and a positive attitude is all you need. But I share about values and principles and attitudes and I never tell people I understand their pain.

Nick Vujicic

#7. I'm a great fan of Woody Allen's movies.

Arnaud Desplechin

#8. It has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room

Patrick O'Brian

#9. 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

#10. I love some films with very silent characters, people who don't speak, but I wouldn't be able to do that.

Arnaud Desplechin

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. Sometimes when I am in a situation that I have never been in, I kind of pull back a little bit to observe things; it doesn't really last long though I have to. I've resigned to myself to the fact that I have to be me.

Queen Latifah

#16. I've been listening to how the Roman Empire fell and all I can say is, it didn't fall nearly fast enough!-Iggy

James Patterson

#17. In a totally dysfunctional society, the profession of a writer would not exist.

Minae Mizumura

#18. 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

#19. Your calling, your dream, your vision is your kingdom. This means you are the king or queen of this Kingdom and you should rule it with dignity and respect. By doing that you'll create trust and loyalty to those who believe in you.

Euginia Herlihy

#20. The lack of predictability with television is something that's constantly changing what your perception of who you think your character is.

Lucy Liu

#21. When Jesus got the big questions, he didn't present arguments. He presented himself.

Timothy Keller

#22. 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

#23. Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.

Hillary Clinton

#24. 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

#25. When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.

George Bernard Shaw

#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. No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you're better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.

Thomas More

#28. Powers that be, powers of three, let Caterina's destiny be all that I see.

Rachel Harris