Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by Marcel Carne

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French director Marcel Carne.
Last updated on November 18, 2024.
Marcel Carne

Marcel Albert Carné was a French film director. A key figure in the poetic realism movement, Carné's best known films include Port of Shadows (1938), Le Jour Se Lève (1939), The Devil's Envoys (1942) and Children of Paradise (1945), the last of which has been cited as one of the greatest films of all time.

My father's sister never married in order to raise me.
It's nice to know that people appreciate and respect you.
I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy. — © Marcel Carne
I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.
When I last went to Italy, over two years ago, I had a lot more trouble understanding the language than I used to when I lived there for a year. I used to speak very little but I could understand very well.
I don't know what they'll say when I die. I don't give a damn, but they'll probably cry.
Well, you know, I'm much older than I look.
I also won one from the emperor of Japan, with a prize for the arts. That's important.
But I still always felt the absence of a mother.
If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings.
For people to understand me when I travel, I speak with my hands.
I was very nervous at the beginning of Hotel du Nord.
Well, I always run the risk of falling on my face, which has in fact happened.
The problem is that to be a producer, one must be a gambler, and the greatest French producers were gamblers.
A lot of people are upset that I'm not working. They say it's a disgrace.
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