Rivette Quotes

#1. I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them.

Emmanuelle Beart

#2. First, her father had a minor stroke, giving Claire a glimpse of his mortality and, by extension, her own. And then she had a vision of herself thirty years in the future: a spinster librarian in an apartment full of cats named after New Wave directors. (Godard, leave Rivette's chew toy alone - )

Jess Walter

#3. And the fact that I see so many films really seems to amaze certain people.

Jacques Rivette

#4. Like the sun that sets at the end of the day, so too will Ramadan come and go, leaving only it's mark on our heart's sky.

Yasmin Mogahed

#5. I hate how long it takes to feel radical, militantly maternal self-acceptance.

Anne Lamott

#6. Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.

Jacques Rivette

#7. And I took a long time to appreciate Lynch.

Jacques Rivette

#8. When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.

Jacques Rivette

#9. My philosophy of defense is to keep the pressure on an opponent until you get to his emotions

John Wooden

#10. Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.

Jacques Rivette

#11. We never shape the world . . . the world shapes us.

Toni Morrison

#12. Everything that is wrong with this sinful world, is rooted in the selfishness of man. Rom. 8:5

Felix Wantang

#13. Their films would probably be better if they'd seen a few more films, which runs counter to this idiotic theory that you run the risk of being influenced if you see too much.

Jacques Rivette

#14. For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave.

Jacques Rivette

#15. Kubrick is a machine, a mutant, a Martian. He has no human feeling whatsoever. But it's great when the machine films other machines, as in 2001.

Jacques Rivette

#16. I'm trying my hardest to get you so wrapped up in me you never leave.

Abbi Glines

#17. I'm always envious of the actors who get to come to work every day and really grow deep roots there, but it is really fun playing lots of different characters.

Jaime Ray Newman

#18. You don't have to do anything! If you enjoy life at this level, if you feel this is the ultimate for you, you can have this experience over and over and over again!

Neale Donald Walsch

#19. Whereas with Sirk, everything is always filmed. No matter what the script, he's always a real director.

Jacques Rivette

#20. Every kind of prayer, not intercessory prayer only, which is the highest kind of prayer, but all prayer, from the lowest kind to the highest, is impossible in a life of known and allowed sin.

Alexander Whyte

#21. Outside our comfort zone, though, is where we experience the true awesomeness of God.

Lysa TerKeurst

#22. And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea what I saw, all I know is that I left the theater floating six feet above the ground.

Jacques Rivette

#23. If we realize our responsibility before God for our life, we will understand how valuable time is for us.

Sunday Adelaja

#24. Let it come, as it will, and don't be afraid. God does not leave us comfortless, so let evening come.

Jane Kenyon

#25. I guess I like a lot of directors. Or at least I try to.

Jacques Rivette