51 Quotes by Jean-Pierre Jeunet

When critics love your film, you love critics. When they hate your film, you hate critics. It's the same everywhere, but maybe especially in France, where we have pretty good critics, except for three or four newspapers that are really dogmatic.

I write scripts by myself. It's not for everybody. It's someone's personal work. I need to be in love with the subject.

In the States, I learned to fight for every idea. Sometimes, a director has to be a tyrant to keep the quality.

When I was a child, I had a ViewMaster, those red box glasses with little discs, so that you can see 3D images. They were my first steps in cinema. I was eight years old, I would cut and change the order of the images and that's how I created films that subsequently I recorded and projected and showed my friends. So I already took my first steps in 3D when I was eight years old.

In France, it's very suspect when you have a success.

For me, the most important word in cinema is the word freedom. For example, in Europe, we've got freedom, we've got the final cut and that's something which is marvellous.

All day my mind drifts off into fantasies and little stupid jokes.

I've never made any concessions, so I am 100% responsible for my films. This makes me feel very proud.

I love science fiction but I don't like fantastic [cinema]. For example, if you have a magical ring and you can explode the world with it. What are we talking about? You know, it's not interesting. I don't like Lord of the Rings. Even Star Wars, for me, I don't understand this kind of story. But Alien, because the rules of the game are very precise, it could happen. I love science fiction. I have an idea about robots in the future.