Jean-Pierre Melville famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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
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
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
I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing.
-- Jean-Pierre Melville

#Moving #Fantasy #Realism

Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.
I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.
God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.
The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.
I can't do this Ash. It's killing me. Having you this close and not touching you is driving me insane. You're his Ash. You're his. You made your choice and I understand why you chose him. I don't hold it against you but dammit Ash it hurts
It represents a place women go and are left confused because they do not hear the truth about abortion and their choices. They are in a sense abused by the medical procedures that are performed without quality medical instructions/information. It's a tragic place.
I think the British audience might be more open-minded with some of my imagery and weird choices.
The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.

Jean-Pierre Melville famous quotes

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