Jean Renoir famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

To the question, â€˜Is the cinema an art?â€™ my answer is, â€˜what does it matter?â€™... You can make films or you can cultivate a garden. Both have as much claim to being called an art as a poem by Verlaine or a painting by Delacroixâ€¦ Art is â€˜making.â€™ The art of poetry is the art of making poetry. The art of love is the art of making love... My father never talked to me about art. He could not bear the word.
-- Jean Renoir

#Art #Father #Love Is
When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting.
-- Jean Renoir

#Interesting #Empathy #Understanding
A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.
-- Jean Renoir

#Directors #Pieces #Break
Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?
-- Jean Renoir

#Betrayal #Succeed
The only things that are important in life are the things you remember.
-- Jean Renoir

#Important #Remember
The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons.
-- Jean Renoir

#Awful #Life Is #Reason
A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.
-- Jean Renoir

#Children #Directors #Actors
The real hell of life is that everyone has his reasons.
-- Jean Renoir

#Real #Life Is #Hell
I believe that perfection handicaps cinema.
-- Jean Renoir

#Believe #Perfection #Cinema
Everyone has his reasons.
-- Jean Renoir

#Reason
The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience, and a little love, we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called man.
-- Jean Renoir

#Men #Grace #Cinema
Nature is millions of things. And there are millions of ways of understanding its preoccupations.
-- Jean Renoir

#Understanding #Way #Preoccupation
There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.
-- Jean Renoir

#Film #Realism
The foundation of all civilization is loitering.
-- Jean Renoir

#Civilization #Foundation
In this world, there is one terrible thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.
-- Jean Renoir

#World #Cynicism #Reason
The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.
-- Jean Renoir

#Birthday #Years #People

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