Bertrand Tavernier famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.

  • Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.

  • I believe that cinema picks up ideas from society and not the other way round.

  • I didn't like fairy tales when I was younger. I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.

  • I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales

  • In fairy tales there's always one person who is made for one other, and they find each other and live happily ever after. Cal was my person. I couldn't imagine anyone more perfect. Yet what kind of sick fairy tale would it be if he was the one made exactly right for me and I wasn't right for him?

  • Oh, where is the Fairy Godmother of explanations when you need her?

  • Charm is the true gift of the Fairies.

  • I was a captive and a slave. I loved Dora Spenlow to distraction! She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph, I dont know what she was--anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted.

  • It is not children only that one feeds with fairy tales.