Top 28 Rivette's Quotes

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

Jacques Rivette

#2. Every believer is also a nonbeliever because he does not believe in the things nonbelievers believe in; every nonbeliever is also a believer because he believes in the things believers do not believe in!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. In order to get to the other side of the shore, you have to lose sight of this one!

Steven Tyler

#6. Across the road, tadpoles are dancing on the quarter thumbnail of the moon. They cant see, not yet.

James Wright

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

Jacques Rivette

#8. Every creation comes from the Creator.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. I'm doing a lot of parenting work and acting as a spokesperson. I have a clothing line and a line of toys.

Josie Bissett

#10. 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

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

Jacques Rivette

#12. 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

#13. We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.

Wendell Berry

#14. I really like Gwyneth Paltrow a lot, as far as her career, because I think she's done a lot of small movies but she's also done great, big movies, and she's a really great actress.

Emma Roberts

#15. The criteria for architecture after the tsunami is humbleness

Kengo Kuma

#16. 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

#17. To insist, even with Olympian assurance, that life appeared quite by chance and evolved in this fashion, is an unfounded supposition which I believe to be wrong and not in accordance with the facts.

Pierre-Paul Grasse

#18. 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

#19. In 10 years, I'd love to live near the sea, in a warmer climate. I could see myself with three dogs ... and it'd be great to share them with someone else.

Luke Evans

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

Jacques Rivette

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

Jacques Rivette

#22. Multi- polarisation has become an inevitable trend in the process of shaping a global political pattern and has been widely welcomed by the international community as it reflects the common interests and aspiration of the overwhelming majority of countries.

Li Peng

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

Jacques Rivette

#24. Liars ought to have good memories.

Algernon Sydney Logan

#25. Those who have the FREEDOM to Row can get to where they want to Go!-RVM

R.v.m.

#26. Mom's going to love you," I assure her. "You'll see."

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Mom hates her.

Or at least, she's doing a good job of hiding her love.

Elle Kennedy

#27. And this is when I know we're only about an hour and a half from Harlow riding Finn reverse-cowgirl on the floor somewhere.

Christina Lauren

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

Jacques Rivette

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