Resnais Quotes

#1. There must be something wrong with those people who think Audrey Hepburn doesn't perspire, hiccup or sneeze, because they know that's not true. I n fact, I hiccup more than most.

Audrey Hepburn

#2. When I was 12 I made some little films with my friends. I tried to make gangster films, like Fantomas, but I remember being very disappointed with them. They weren't frightening at all. I'm sure they'd be very funny now.

Alain Resnais

#3. I can't see any reason why a film shouldn't be stylized and visually beautiful. I don't think a beautiful set is pretentious.

Alain Resnais

#4. For me an unfavorable initial reaction happens fairly often. For some reason the more time that elapses after the film opens, the more favorable the reviews become.

Alain Resnais

#5. There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better.

Alain Resnais

#6. Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make.

Alain Resnais

#7. I'd even say it's a realistic film because that's the way it happens in our heads; that was the idea.

Alain Resnais

#8. We should all die with a sharp, brusque heart attack. My father was lucky like that. One day he went hunting. He had a good day, he killed a lot of game, he was with his best friends. He said, "Ah, I'm still a good hunter." Then he said, "I don't feel well," and in 30 seconds it was all over.

Alain Resnais

#9. I'm much better at things if I believe in them, and a lot of those little teenage starlet roles, they have problems, too, and a lot of movies just ignore that.

Sarah Steele

#10. It was repugnant, but it was the only way to communicate.

Alain Resnais

#11. Oh, yes, that never happened to me in my life before. It was a risky film, and I warned the producer.

Alain Resnais

#12. Since we had little money and few documents, we had nothing.

Alain Resnais

#13. I never thought of becoming a director. When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me - I still watch silent films.

Alain Resnais

#14. My films seem to be better understood and better received by the monthly publications. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable.

Alain Resnais

#15. So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.

Alain Resnais

#16. I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment.

Alain Resnais

#17. When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me-I still watch silent films. I don't think that there is any such thing as an old film; you don't say, 'I read an old book by Flaubert,' or 'I saw an old play by Moliere.'

Alain Resnais

#18. A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and a prosperous countryside are the rewards for his efforts.

Antoine Lavoisier

#19. It seemed like my professional life would take a more scientific route. I guess that plan started to become undone when, at the age of 17, I happened upon a screening of Alain Resnais' 'Hiroshima Mon Amour,' and it took my breath away.

Arnon Goldfinger

#20. As a race car driver, driving is the easy part. The hard part is containing the emotions on the race track.

Kevin Harvick

#21. I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.

Alain Resnais

#22. There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator.

Alain Resnais

#23. The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback.

Alain Resnais

#24. That's easy to answer: I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.

Alain Resnais

#25. What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? - SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Wayne W. Dyer

#26. A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I'm extremely comfortable with my style.

Alain Resnais