Top 22 Quotes & Sayings by Alain Resnais

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French director Alain Resnais.

Last updated on December 3, 2024.

Alain Resnais was a French film director and screenwriter whose career extended over more than six decades. After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct a number of short films which included Night and Fog (1956), an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps.

French - Director | Born: June 3, 1922

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It was repugnant, but it was the only way to communicate.

Alain Resnais

So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.

Alain Resnais

I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.

Alain Resnais

There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better.

Alain Resnais

That's easy to answer: I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.

Alain Resnais

I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment.

Alain Resnais

Since we had little money and few documents, we had nothing.

Alain Resnais

The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback.

Alain Resnais

Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make.

Alain Resnais

Oh, yes, that never happened to me in my life before. It was a risky film, and I warned the producer.

Alain Resnais

I'd even say it's a realistic film because that's the way it happens in our heads; that was the idea.

Alain Resnais

I never thought of becoming a director. When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me - I still watch silent films.

Alain Resnais

My films seem to be better understood and better received by the monthly publications. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable.

Alain Resnais

I am never driven. Every film Ive made has been an assignment.

Alain Resnais

I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.

Alain Resnais

When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me-I still watch silent films. I don't think that there is any such thing as an old film; you don't say, 'I read an old book by Flaubert,' or 'I saw an old play by Moliere.'

Alain Resnais

There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator.

Alain Resnais

When I was 12 I made some little films with my friends. I tried to make gangster films, like Fantomas, but I remember being very disappointed with them. They weren't frightening at all. I'm sure they'd be very funny now.

Alain Resnais

A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I'm extremely comfortable with my style.

Alain Resnais

I can't see any reason why a film shouldn't be stylized and visually beautiful. I don't think a beautiful set is pretentious.

Alain Resnais

For me an unfavorable initial reaction happens fairly often. For some reason the more time that elapses after the film opens, the more favorable the reviews become.

Alain Resnais

We should all die with a sharp, brusque heart attack. My father was lucky like that. One day he went hunting. He had a good day, he killed a lot of game, he was with his best friends. He said, "Ah, I'm still a good hunter." Then he said, "I don't feel well," and in 30 seconds it was all over.

Alain Resnais

Top 22 Quotes & Sayings by Alain Resnais

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