Alain Resnais Quotes (16 Quotes)


    I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment.

    I never thought of becoming a director. When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me - I still watch silent films.

    I'd even say it's a realistic film because that's the way it happens in our heads; that was the idea.

    I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.

    For the first time, I used a mix of black and white with color. In the editing room, I asked myself, What are you doing manipulating corpses this way


    It's painful, either because the people onscreen have died, or because I don't think the direction is good. There's always something.

    They got the idea. In life, we rarely remember a whole song in Potter, there's often a violent contrast between the situation and the song.

    Since we had little money and few documents, we had nothing.

    So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.

    The heroine's memory, her affair with the German soldier, was the past, but the sound was in the present we hear the sounds of Tokyo.

    The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback.

    It was repugnant, but it was the only way to communicate.

    There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better.

    Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make.

    Oh, yes, that never happened to me in my life before. It was a risky film, and I warned the producer.

    That's easy to answer: I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.


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