Alain Resnais Quotes

France, Film Director
June 3, 1922 – March, 1, 2014.

Alain Resnais (French: [alɛ̃ ʁɛnɛ]; 3 June 1922 – 1 March 2014) was a French film director and screenwriter whose career extended over more than six decades. After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct a number of short films which included Night and Fog (1956), an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps.

Also known as Screenwriter

The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback.

Alain Resnais
- Past
- Present
That's easy to answer: I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.

Alain Resnais

Since we had little money and few documents, we had nothing.

Alain Resnais
- Money
I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment.

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I'd even say it's a realistic film because that's the way it happens in our heads; that was the idea.

Alain Resnais
Oh, yes, that never happened to me in my life before. It was a risky film, and I warned the producer.

Alain Resnais
- Life
I never thought of becoming a director. When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me - I still watch silent films.

Alain Resnais
Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make.

Alain Resnais
- Purpose
- Luck

It was repugnant, but it was the only way to communicate.

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So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.

Alain Resnais
There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better.

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- People
- Work
I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.

Alain Resnais
- Singing