Jean-Pierre Jeunet Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• I would be wary about working in the States because freedom is an important thing. I have made seven films and even on Alien Resurrection I had the freedom. I had to fight and struggle a bit but in the end I won out.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Struggle, Fighting, Important

  Source: www.eyeforfilm.co.uk

• In general, I have some precise ideas about everything, because the film is completed in my head before we ever start shooting. With casting, I am always present, even for the smallest character.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Character, Ideas, Shooting

  Source: www.avclub.com

• When critics love your film, you love critics. When they hate your film, you hate critics. It's the same everywhere, but maybe especially in France, where we have pretty good critics, except for three or four newspapers that are really dogmatic.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Hate, Love You, Three

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Each time, I try to find a family of interesting faces. I follow the tradition of films from the 40s - at this time, there were so many interesting faces in France. I often work with the same because there are not thousands and thousands in France. I'm looking for interesting faces and characters actors, and it's not for everybody.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Character, Interesting, Trying

  "Micmacs". Interview with Nobuhiro Hosoki, hosokinema.com.

• When I was a child, I had a ViewMaster, those red box glasses with little discs, so that you can see 3D images. They were my first steps in cinema. I was eight years old, I would cut and change the order of the images and that's how I created films that subsequently I recorded and projected and showed my friends. So I already took my first steps in 3D when I was eight years old.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Children, Cutting, Glasses

  Source: www.filmuforia.co.uk

• I've never made any concessions, so I am 100% responsible for my films. This makes me feel very proud.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Proud, Film, Responsible

  "Interview with Jean-Pierre Jeunet for TS Spivet". Interview with Matthew Turner, www.filmuforia.co.uk. June 12, 2014.

• I think of a film as being like a toy train.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Thinking, Toys, Film

  Source: www.eyeforfilm.co.uk

• I thought all I had to do was to buy a camera and become a film director. So when I left school I worked at a telephone company, which gave me the money to buy the basic equipment including the camera, the projector and the screen.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  School, Cameras, Directors

  "Inside Jeunet's box of tricks". Interview with Richard Mowe, www.eyeforfilm.co.uk. June 13, 2014.

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