Jean-Pierre Melville Quotes

• 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

  Artist, Views, Want

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• I believe that you must be madly in love with cinema to create films. You also need a huge cinematic baggage.

  Jean-Pierre Melville

  Believe, Needs, Cinema

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• I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing.

  Jean-Pierre Melville

  Moving, Fantasy, Realism

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• 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

  Death, Men, Choices

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