Tati's Quotes

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

Rick Perlstein

#2. Time is a powerful friend or adversary.

Pepper D. Basham

#3. Don't think people with talent necessarily value it, because it all comes so easy to them, and we never value things that come easy to us.

Nick Hornby

#4. Friedrich Hayek is not an important figure in the history of macroeconomics.

Paul Krugman

#5. How we grow food has enormous effects on the environment - climate change as well as pollution of air, water, and soil.

Marion Nestle

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.

Tracey Emin

#9. 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

#10. Some women were created to make other women feel like shit about themselves.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#11. Aamir Khan told me that I was doing Sameer's character all wrong in Dil Chahta Hai

Saif Ali Khan

#12. 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

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

Norman McLaren

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

Jacques Tati

#15. I live a fantastic life; I have fantastic friends - I stay out of the Hollywood stuff as much as I can because it's so much fun that you don't want to go down that path; you just want to work.

Sasha Jackson

#16. 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