15 Quotes by Jacques Rivette

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.

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

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.

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.

And I took a long time to appreciate Lynch.

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.

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

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

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