Jean Renoir Quotes

• To the question, ‘Is the cinema an art?’ my answer is, ‘what does it matter?’... You can make films or you can cultivate a garden. Both have as much claim to being called an art as a poem by Verlaine or a painting by Delacroix… Art is ‘making.’ The art of poetry is the art of making poetry. The art of love is the art of making love... My father never talked to me about art. He could not bear the word.

  Jean Renoir

  Love, Art, Father

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• A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.

  Jean Renoir

  Movie, Inspiring, Film Directing

  Quoted in Leslie Halliwell, Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion (1993)

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• The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons.

  Jean Renoir

  Awful, Life Is, Reason

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• The only things that are important in life are the things you remember.

  Jean Renoir

  Important, Remember

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• All technical refinements discourage me. Perfect photography, larger screens, hi-fi sound, all make it possible for mediocrities slavishly to reproduce nature; and this reproduction bores me. What interests me is the interpretation of life by an artist. The personality of the film maker interests me more than the copy of an object.

  Jean Renoir

  Photography, Artist, Perfect

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• The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience, and a little love, we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called man.

  Jean Renoir

  Men, Grace, Saving

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting.

  Jean Renoir

  Interesting, Empathy, Understanding

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• The foundation of all civilization is loitering.

  Jean Renoir

  Civilization, Foundation

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• I believe that perfection handicaps cinema.

  Jean Renoir

  Believe, Perfection, Cinema

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.

  Jean Renoir

  Children, Directors, Actors

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• I am against great themes and great subjects... You can't film an idea. The camera is an instrument for recording physical impact.

  Jean Renoir

  Impact, Ideas, Cameras

  Penelope Gilliatt, Jean Renoir (1975). “Jean Renoir: essays, conversations, and reviews”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?

  Jean Renoir

  Betrayal, Succeed

  'My Life and My Films' (1974) 'Nana'

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• There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.

  Jean Renoir

  Film, Realism, American Film

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• Nature is millions of things. And there are millions of ways of understanding its preoccupations.

  Jean Renoir

  Understanding, Way, Preoccupation

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• The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.

  Jean Renoir

  Birthday, Years, People

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• The real hell of life is that everyone has his reasons.

  Jean Renoir

  Real, Life Is, Hell

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• Everyone has his reasons.

  Jean Renoir

  Reason

  Jean Renoir, Bert Cardullo (2005). “Jean Renoir: Interviews”, p.17, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• You see, in this world there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.

  Jean Renoir

  World, Cynicism, Reason

  "Jean Renoir: essays, conversations, and reviews".

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