Jacques Rivette famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Directors #Film #Certain
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
And the fact that I see so many films really seems to amaze certain people.
-- Jacques Rivette

#People #Facts #Film
I guess I like a lot of directors. Or at least I try to.
-- Jacques Rivette

#Trying #Directors
Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.
-- Jacques Rivette

#Odd #Filmmaker
For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave.
-- Jacques Rivette

#Want #Film #Packs
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
And I took a long time to appreciate Lynch.
-- Jacques Rivette

#Long #Appreciate
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 #Usual
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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