Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Jean-Pierre Melville

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Jean-Pierre Melville was a French filmmaker and actor. Among his films are Le Silence de la mer (1949), Le Doulos (1962), Le Samouraï (1967), Army of Shadows (1969) and Le Cercle Rouge (1970).

French - Filmmaker | October 20, 1917 - August 2, 1973

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It's the honest point of view of an artist: You have to please.I'd like viewers to come away from my films unsure whether they've understood them. I want to leave them wondering.

Jean-Pierre Melville

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Jean-Pierre Melville