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 al…

- Jean-Pierre Jeunet

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

- Jean-Pierre Jeunet

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…

- Jean-Pierre Jeunet

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 drive…

- Jean-Pierre Jeunet

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 chi…

- Jean-Pierre Jeunet

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 sma…

- Jean-Pierre Jeunet

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

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'…

- Jean-Pierre Jeunet

For me, the most important word in cinema is the word freedom. For example, in Europe, we've got freedom, we've got the final cut and that's somethin…

- Jean-Pierre Jeunet