In the States, I learned to fight for every idea. Sometimes, a director has to be a tyrant to keep the quality.
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
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
All day my mind drifts off into fantasies and little stupid jokes. - Jean-Pierre Jeunet
All day my mind drifts off into fantasies and little stupid jokes.
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
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…
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
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…
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
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…
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'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…
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
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.
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
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'…
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
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…
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