"A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again."

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Source : Quoted in Leslie Halliwell, Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion (1993)

Jean Renoir

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“My work is largely concerned with relations between seeing and knowing, seeing and saying, seeing and believing.”
“Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.”
“I'd get kicked out of buildings all day long, people would rip up my business card in my face. It's a humbling business to be in. But I knew I could sell and I knew I wanted to sell something I had created. I cut the feet out of those pantyhose and I knew I was on to something. This was it.”

Source : “The woman in control of America's bottom” by Louise France, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2008.
“Life is like a B-picture script. It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You'll notice my eyes have sort of glazed over.”
“The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous.”
“There's something in the very small minutia of life that tells us something about the big, big picture that we see every day all over the place, and so I think the more specific and creative and revelatory you are in the micro, the more powerful the macro will be.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“The rains tumble down in the sky, Young swallows have learned how to fly, The leaves that were green are no longer so green, And it looks like the summer is over.”

Source : "Song: 'Summer Is Over'". 1964.

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