Jean Cocteau Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Gambling, Film

  Esquire magazine, February 1961.

• Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Raw Materials, Paper

• When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don't. I have a knack for disturbing.

  Jean Cocteau

  Writing, Knack, Painting

• The hot hall full of painted girls and American soldiers is a saloon in some Western film. This noise drenches us, wakens us to do something else. It shows us a lost path.

  Jean Cocteau

  Girl, Soldier, Hot

• The poet Paul Éluard says that to understand my film version of Beauty and the Beast, you must love your dog more than your car.

  Jean Cocteau

  Dog, Love You, Car

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