You see, in this world there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.
Jean RenoirRead
The real hell of life is that everyone has his reasons.
Interpretation
What this quote means
People often have justifications for their actions, even if those actions seem harmful or unjust to others.
The quote by Jean Renoir suggests that every individual perceives their circumstances and decisions through their own lens of reasoning. This highlights the complexity of human behavior, indicating that what might appear as irrational or cruel to one person can be seen as justified by another, thereby presenting a layered understanding of morality and empathy in human interactions.
Themes
ReasonsUnderstandingPerspectiveHuman NatureEmpathy
In practice
Example use cases
In discussions about morality, I often quote Jean Renoir's thought on the reasons behind human actions.
More from Jean Renoir
All quotes →To the question, ‘Is the cinema an art?’ my answer is, ‘what does it matter?’... You can make films or you can cultivate a garden. Both have as much claim to being called an art as a poem by Verlaine or a painting by Delacroix… Art is ‘making.’ The art of poetry is the art of making poetry. The art of love is the art of making love... My father never talked to me about art. He could not bear the word.
Jean RenoirRead
A 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.
Jean RenoirRead
A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.
Jean RenoirRead
I believe that perfection handicaps cinema.
Jean RenoirRead
A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.
Jean RenoirRead
Similar quotes
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past or the future.
Blaise PascalRead
In the game of thrones, even the humblest pieces can have wills of their own. Sometimes they refuse to make the moves you've planned for them.
George R. R. MartinRead
The assumption is that life doesn't need to be navigated with lessons. You can just do it intuitively. After all, you only need to achieve autonomy from your parents, find a moderately satisfying job, form a relationship, perhaps raise some children, watch the onset of mortality in your parents' generation and eventually in your own, until one day a fatal illness starts gnawing at your innards and you calmly go to the grave, shut the coffin and are done with the self-evident business of life.
Alain De BottonRead
A sensitive person receives fifty impressions where somebody else may only get seven. Sensitive people are so vulnerable; they're so easily brutalized and hurt just because they are sensitive. The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs.Analysis helps. It helped me. But still, the last eight, nine years I've been pretty messed up, a mess pretty much.
Marlon BrandoRead
There is a dark side in all of us. And for us 'bad' people, the bad side dominates. I think there is a great sadness in villains, and I have tried to put that across. We cannot stop ourselves doing what we are doing.
Christopher LeeRead
The surest mark of true conversion is humility.
J. C. RyleRead