Tati Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I knew that we'd never get there. I knew this, in the same way I knew Tati would never be a teacher, and that Benny would be the end of me. Life's about confirming what we already know. About making sure.

Nami Mun

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

Norman McLaren

#4. Like Godard, Tati is also remarkably appreciative of the odd beauty that can be revealed in the shapes, patterns and colors created by the technology of planned obsolescence.

Vincent Canby

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

Rick Perlstein

#6. As a little kid, I was very shy.

Ray Toro

#7. A memory can taint your dreams

Abilash Balan

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

Jacques Tati

#9. Time and suffering are inseperable. In life, as in physics, both are the common denominator of all experiences.

Christopher Dutton

#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. We know virtually all of the genes known to mammals. We do not know all of the combinations.

Craig Venter

#12. The competition is so fierce once you become an adult. I'll probably move on to something else.

Jodie Sweetin

#13. Yesterday, I masturbated for 45 minutes ... with salad tongs.

Zach Galifianakis

#14. 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

#15. I don't understand my own sporadic collapses into passivity. Perhaps I never will.

Helen Garner

#16. Life becomes easy for people who respond to the demands of life.

Sunday Adelaja

#17. From death we gain knowledge of life, and from this knowledge we may one day vanquish death.
-The Book of The Eternal Rose

Fiona Paul