31 Quotes by Alain Resnais

A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I'm extremely comfortable with my style.

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

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.

I can't see any reason why a film shouldn't be stylized and visually beautiful. I don't think a beautiful set is pretentious.

There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator.

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

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

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

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