I guess I like a lot of directors. Or at least I try to.

- Jacques Rivette

Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.

- Jacques Rivette

For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave.

- Jacques Rivette

And the fact that I see so many films really seems to amaze certain people.

- Jacques Rivette

And I took a long time to appreciate Lynch.

- Jacques Rivette

When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.

- Jacques Rivette

Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.

- Jacques Rivette

I reject the word 'script' entirely-at any rate in the usual sense. I prefer the old usage-usually scenario-which it had in the Commedia dell'Arte, m…

- Jacques Rivette

Kubrick is a machine, a mutant, a Martian. He has no human feeling whatsoever. But it's great when the machine films other machines, as in 2001.

- Jacques Rivette