Jacques Tati Quotes

#1. I can't summarize my favorite movie, Jacques Tati's 'Play Time.' You just have to see it.

Rick Perlstein

#2. Jacques Tati is the great philosophical tinkerer of comedy, taking meticulous care to arrange his films so that they unfold in a series of revelations and effortless delights.

Roger Ebert

#3. Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it.

Norman McLaren

#4. There is a fine line I have to walk throughout the writing process in a novel. It is this line between drama and melodrama, and it is this line between evoking genuine emotional power and being manipulative.

Nicholas Sparks

#5. That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown; and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.

Richard Henry Lee

#6. I should like to make films that are not lowering to the spirit. A new building can be very harrowing, I should like to give people a chance to whistle.

Jacques Tati

#7. A famous philosopher (either Aristotle or Judith Krantz, I forget who) once said about being a woman in Los Angeles: If you're blonde and beautiful, you're interchangeable. If you're not, you're invisible.

Laura Levine

#8. The culture of power versus the power of culture," he quoted. "One side always loses.

Ausma Zehanat Khan

#9. I don't like going out that much. I'm kind of an old lady. After it's 11, I'm like, 'Don't these kids ever get tired?' When I'm out, I think about my couch. Like, 'It would be awesome to be on it right now. I bet there's an episode of Dance Moms on.

Jennifer Lawrence

#10. The images are designed, so that after you see the picture two or three times, its no longer my film, it starts to be your film, You recognize the people, you know them, and you don't even know who directed the picture. PlayTime is nobody.

Jacques Tati

#11. You won't find another Chaplin, you won't find another Keaton, because the school is closed.

Jacques Tati