Jacques Rivette Quotes

• When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.

  Jacques Rivette

  Film History, Directors, Certain

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• Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.

  Jacques Rivette

  Odd, Filmmaker

  "Tributes to French New Wave Master Jacques Rivette, Dead at 87" by Sam Adams, www.indiewire.com. January 29, 2016.

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• I reject the word 'script' entirely-at any rate in the usual sense. I prefer the old usage-usually scenario-which it had in the Commedia dell'Arte, meaning an outline or scheme: it implies a dynamism, a number of ideas and principles from which one can set out to find the best possible approach to filming.

  Jacques Rivette

  Ideas, Numbers, Scripts

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• And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea what I saw, all I know is that I left the theater floating six feet above the ground.

  Jacques Rivette

  Ideas, Feet, Floating

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• Kubrick is a machine, a mutant, a Martian. He has no human feeling whatsoever. But it's great when the machine films other machines, as in 2001.

  Jacques Rivette

  Feelings, Mutants, Machines

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• Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.

  Jacques Rivette

  Profound, Doubt, Film

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• For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave.

  Jacques Rivette

  Want, Film, Packs

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• And the fact that I see so many films really seems to amaze certain people.

  Jacques Rivette

  People, Facts, Film

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• And I took a long time to appreciate Lynch.

  Jacques Rivette

  Long, Appreciate, Long Time

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• I guess I like a lot of directors. Or at least I try to.

  Jacques Rivette

  Trying, Directors

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