Top 30 Jean Renoir Quotes
#1. It is universally agreed that Jean Renoir was one of the greatest of all directors, and he was also one of the warmest and most entertaining.
Roger Ebert
#2. One should make movies innocently - the way Adam and Eve named the animals, their first day in the garden ... Learn from your own interior vision of things, as if there had never been a D.W.Griffith, or a Eisenstein, or a [John] Ford, or a [Jean] Renoir, or anybody.
Orson Welles
#3. Everyone has his reasons." Octave (Jean Renoir) in "The Rules of the Game.
Jean Renoir
#4. You see, in this world, there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.
Jean Renoir
#5. My little Renoirs. Matisse describes having seen Renoir make these tiny canvases. When he had finished working, he would use up the color left in his brushes on them.
Jean Cocteau
#6. I believe that perfection handicaps cinema.
Jean Renoir
#8. The really terrible thing is that everyone has his reasons.
Jean Renoir
#9. The foundation of all civilization is loitering.
Jean Renoir
#10. The real hell of life is that everyone has his reasons.
Jean Renoir
#11. If a group believes God favors them because of their particularly true doctrine, ways of worship, and ethical behavior, their attitude toward those without these things can be hostile.
Timothy Keller
#12. A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.
Jean Renoir
#13. The truly terrible thing is that everybody has their reasons.
Jean Renoir
#14. I am against great themes and great subjects ... You can't film an idea. The camera is an instrument for recording physical impact.
Jean Renoir
#15. how many love stories begin with, "He yelled at me from his car as I was going to work?" If
Luvvie Ajayi
#16. Nature is millions of things. And there are millions of ways of understanding its preoccupations.
Jean Renoir
#17. Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?
Jean Renoir
#18. The only things that are important in life are the things you remember.
Jean Renoir
#19. We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement to organize it in this way - an agreement that holds through our speech community and is codified in the patterns of our language.
Benjamin Lee Whorf
#20. There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.
Jean Renoir
#21. Wilshire Boulevard ... It has no smell to it.
Jean Renoir
#23. The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience, and a little love, we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called man.
Jean Renoir
#24. The real hell of life is everyone has his reasons.
Jean Renoir
#25. A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it up and makes it again.
Jean Renoir
#26. The truly terrible thing is, everyone has his reasons
Jean Renoir
#28. When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting.
Jean Renoir
#29. There are far more a worst crimes than burning books ... Not reading them.
Joseph Brodsky
#30. The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons.
Jean Renoir
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