15 Quotes by Jacques Rivette

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    A few years ago, I thought that you could no longer make films in Paris; I was wrong. Paris is constantly on the move and you could still shoot 500 or 5,000 films there.

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

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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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    Kubrick is a machine, a mutant, a Martian. He has no human feeling whatsoever. But it's great when the machine films other machines, as in 2001.

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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.

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

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