Jean Renoir Quotes

There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.

Jean Renoir

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• Tell the truth.

  

  Ian Hunter
  • Truth
  • Tell

• I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Truth
  • History
  • Wish

• I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Writing
  • Truth
  • Yourself

• A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Great
  • Truth
  • True

• Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Absolute

• I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.

  

  Eamonn Walker
  • Truth
  • Myself
  • Acting

• The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Truth
  • Support
  • Truth Is

• I like the lasso of truth. There is something so beautiful about the fact that people have to tell the truth when they have the lasso around them. And it's not too violent.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • People
  • Truth
  • Beautiful

• I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Free

• You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Truth
  • Know
  • Truth Is

• At first, I did have that thought, like, 'Oh crap, what are we going to do after?' Then I realized 'Girl in a Country Song' was an honest, truthful song, and we were telling our truth, and that's all we have to do - write songs that are true and tell our stories.

  

  Madison Marlow
  • Country
  • Truth
  • True

• I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Death

• Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Lie

• Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Truth
  • Man
  • Tell

• I do not think that any realism is beautiful.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Think
  • Beautiful
  • Realism

• I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Think

• If I have any advice to give to the Syrian president it is to cooperate for the sake of the investigation or for the sake of uncovering the truth.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Truth
  • Advice
  • President

• I think what's always important is not to be contrarian for its own sake but to really get at the truth.

  

  Peter Thiel
  • Important
  • Truth

• There's something about live players that you cannot get with machines: With live musicians, you can strike a groove, you can feed off each other... And, even though somebody might make a slight mistake, it's all real!

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Live
  • Real
  • Mistake

• Yes, I could see these enormous elephants, whose trunks were tearing down large boughs, and working in and out the trees like a legion of serpents. I could hear the sounds of the mighty tusks uprooting huge trees!

  

  Jules Verne
  • Trees
  • Sounds
  • Elephants

• George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Brilliant
  • Wrote
  • Grammar

• I was bullied as a boy - lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

  

  Anthony Hopkins
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Boy

• There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.

  

  Jean Renoir
  • Truth
  • Realism
  • American films