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In general, I have some precis...

In general, I have some precise ideas about everything, because the film is completed in my head before we ever start shooting. With casting, I am always present, even for the smallest character.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet 31 quotes

When you make something you li...

When you make something you like and audiences reject it, the experience can be painful. But I've discovered...that when you make something you aren't exactly satisfied with, and someone tells you it's great, that's even mor...e painful and frustrating.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet 31 quotes

If I would want to have a huge...

If I would want to have a huge audience, I would make American movies, not French movies, because there is a limit of course with French language. If I prefer to shoot in my own language, it is to play with my language, to play in my Paris, and I have complete freedom in France. It's so amazing. If American directors could imagine how free I am, they would have asked for political asylum immediately.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet 31 quotes

I love science fiction but I d...

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.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet 31 quotes

It's always more interesting a...

It's always more interesting and more difficult to make something positive than negative. To be negative is very easy.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet 31 quotes

I write scripts by myself. It'...

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.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet 31 quotes

I believe in imagination. I wa...

I believe in imagination. I was a worker when I was 17. Between 17 and 21, I was a worker in the telephone company and imagination saved my life.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet 31 quotes

I think we're entering a new p...

I think we're entering a new period of filmmaking that's analogous to switching from black-and-white to color, or from silent to sound. The medium is completely flexible, and it's not bound by anything. If you imagine something, you can do it.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet 31 quotes

In the States, I learned to fi...

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

Jean-Pierre Jeunet 31 quotes

In France, I am so free. I hav...

In France, I am so free. I have more freedom than most American directors could dare to even imagine.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet 31 quotes

In France, it's very suspect w...

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

Jean-Pierre Jeunet 31 quotes

When critics love your film, y...

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.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet 31 quotes

I'm very slow, and I do everyt...

I'm very slow, and I do everything myself. I remember I spent three days to change the size of something I had sketched because I felt it was too small.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet 31 quotes

I hate to lose time on the set...

I hate to lose time on the set. On the set, you have to go at a good pace, because the clock is your master. For that reason, I have to know exactly what I'm trying to get beforehand.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet 31 quotes

When you speak about generosit...

When you speak about generosity, about something good we have inside ourselves, you're speaking to the majority.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet 31 quotes

If you make the right choice i...

If you make the right choice in casting, your work is nearly done already. You don't have to spend a lot of time directing the actors, because they're so well suited to the parts.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet 31 quotes

I like looking back at people'...

I like looking back at people's faces in the dark. I like noticing details that no one else sees. But I hate it in the old American movies when drivers don't watch the road.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet 31 quotes

When I was a kid, I used to es...

When I was a kid, I used to escape from my family with my imagination, and I kept this spirit into my adult life. This doesn't always happen. All children have imagination, but for some it doesn't carry over.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet 31 quotes

It's always been pretty easy f...

It's always been pretty easy for me to exercise my imagination. The other part of the brain, the one that does mathematics, is a nightmare for me. It doesn't work at all.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet 31 quotes

All day my mind drifts off int...

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

Jean-Pierre Jeunet 31 quotes

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