Latest Jean-Pierre Jeunet Quotes from Interviews

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• If I would want to have a huge audience, I would make American movies, not French movies, because there is a limit of course with French language. If I prefer to shoot in my own language, it is to play with my language, to play in my Paris, and I have complete freedom in France. It's so amazing. If American directors could imagine how free I am, they would have asked for political asylum immediately.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Play, Paris, Political

  Source: collider.com

• I love science fiction but I don't like fantastic [cinema]. For example, if you have a magical ring and you can explode the world with it. What are we talking about? You know, it's not interesting. I don't like Lord of the Rings. Even Star Wars, for me, I don't understand this kind of story. But Alien, because the rules of the game are very precise, it could happen. I love science fiction. I have an idea about robots in the future.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Stars, War, Talking

  Source: collider.com

• I write scripts by myself. It's not for everybody. It's someone's personal work. I need to be in love with the subject.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Writing, Needs, Scripts

  Source: collider.com

• It's always more interesting and more difficult to make something positive than negative. To be negative is very easy.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Interesting, Negative, Easy

  Source: collider.com

• I believe in imagination. I was a worker when I was 17. Between 17 and 21, I was a worker in the telephone company and imagination saved my life.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Believe, Imagination, Telephones

  Source: collider.com

• I think we're entering a new period of filmmaking that's analogous to switching from black-and-white to color, or from silent to sound. The medium is completely flexible, and it's not bound by anything. If you imagine something, you can do it.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Black And White, Thinking, Color

  Source: www.avclub.com

• In the States, I learned to fight for every idea. Sometimes, a director has to be a tyrant to keep the quality.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Fighting, Tyrants, Ideas

  Source: www.avclub.com

• In France, I am so free. I have more freedom than most American directors could dare to even imagine.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Directors, France, Imagine

  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

• In France, it's very suspect when you have a success.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  France, Suspects

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I hate to lose time on the set. On the set, you have to go at a good pace, because the clock is your master. For that reason, I have to know exactly what I'm trying to get beforehand.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Hate, Trying, Pace

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I'm very slow, and I do everything myself. I remember I spent three days to change the size of something I had sketched because I felt it was too small.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Three, Size, Remember

  Source: www.avclub.com

• When you speak about generosity, about something good we have inside ourselves, you're speaking to the majority.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Generosity, Majority, Speak

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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

• If you make the right choice in casting, your work is nearly done already. You don't have to spend a lot of time directing the actors, because they're so well suited to the parts.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Choices, Actors, Done

  Source: www.avclub.com

• When I was a kid, I used to escape from my family with my imagination, and I kept this spirit into my adult life. This doesn't always happen. All children have imagination, but for some it doesn't carry over.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Children, Kids, Imagination

  Source: www.avclub.com

• All day my mind drifts off into fantasies and little stupid jokes.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Stupid, Mind, Littles

  Source: www.avclub.com

• It's always been pretty easy for me to exercise my imagination. The other part of the brain, the one that does mathematics, is a nightmare for me. It doesn't work at all.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Exercise, Imagination, Brain

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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

• This is one of the things I don't like so much about French cinema - we have tendency to concentrate on actors and dialogue and we don't care so much about the visual aspect. I love when you use all the elements at your disposal.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Cinema, Use, Actors

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

• I like the cinema of people like Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton. I am not keen on trying to reproduce reality - for that you should do documentaries.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Reality, People, Trying

  Source: www.eyeforfilm.co.uk

• 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.

• 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.

• In Hollywood everything is formatted, everything is compulsory, so therefore we have to follow the law of benefits and profit and money, let us say the law of Hollywood.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Law, Hollywood, Benefits

  Source: www.filmuforia.co.uk