Jacques Rivette Quotes

• Whereas with Sirk, everything is always filmed. No matter what the script, he’s always a real director.

  Jacques Rivette

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

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• Their films would probably be better if they’d seen a few more films, which runs counter to this idiotic theory that you run the risk of being influenced if you see too much.

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• Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.

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• I guess I like a lot of directors. Or at least I try to.

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• For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave.

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• 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

• 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.

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• And the fact that I see so many films really seems to amaze certain people.

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• And I took a long time to appreciate Lynch.

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Jacques Rivette (10)

Birth:	1st March, 1928
Death:	29th January, 2016
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Film Director, Screenwriter

About

Jacques Rivette was born in Rouen, France. He was a French film director, screenwriter and film critic most commonly associated with the French New Wave and the film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma. Inspired by Jean Cocteau to become a filmmaker, he shot his first short film at age twenty. He directed several films include: Paris Belongs to Us, The Nun, Mad Love, Out 1, Celine and Julie Go Boating, Duelle, Love on the Ground, Gang of Four, Top Secret,  Who Knows?, The Duchess of Langeais, and Around a Small Mountain. He wrote several films include: The Nun, Out 1, Le Pont du Nord, and The Story of Marie and Julien.

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