French Screenwriter Quotes

Jean Renoir

Jacques Prévert

Jeanne Moreau

Jean Giono

Jacques Rivette

Elsa Triolet

Michka Assayas

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Jacques Prévert

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

When I talk about ideas, I really mean ideas of mise en scène or—if I were to be shocking about it— of framing, or the way shots are put together, which these days are the only ideas whose profundity I wish to recognize.

Jacques Rivette

You can kill time or kill yourself, it comes to the same thing in the end.

The film-director is not a creator but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.

My point about alcohol is that if you abuse something, it abuses you back.

I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000 meters above sea level than down below.

Despite appearances, puzzling is not a solitary game: every move the puzzler makes, the puzzlemaker has made before; every piece the puzzler picks up, and picks up again, and studies and strokes, every combination he tries, and tries a second time, every blunder and every insight, each hope and each discouragement have all been designed, calculated, and decided by the other.

Desire is always followed by boredom. And only love can defeat boredom. Love with a capital L; we all dream of it.

Grégoire Delacourt