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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, meaning an outline or scheme: it implies a dynamism, a number of ideas and principles from which one can set out to find the best possible approach to filming.

Jacques Rivette's Popular Quotes

And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea what I saw, all I know is that I…

- 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

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 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