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Quote by Jean Renoir

“The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons.”

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Jean Renoir was a French film director known for his unique visual style and profound insights into the realities of life. His works hold a significant place in the history of cinema, particularly in the context of the French New Wave. more

“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.”

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Author:Jean Renoir

“Nature is millions of things. And there are millions of ways of understanding its preoccupations.”

Way Understanding Millions Preoccupation

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“The only things that are important in life are the things you remember.”

Important Remember

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“The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience, and a little love, we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called man.”

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“There's a huge AIDS epidemic in Africa, and one of Bad Boy's plans this year is to give more awareness to that. We're gonna be doing a big charity concert helping to save some of the brothers and sisters in Africa.”

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“I believe that perfection handicaps cinema.”

Believe I Believe Perfection Cinema Handicaps

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“A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.”

Men Subjects Confronting

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“My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more.”

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“I wanted to make a film about stupid people that was very vulgar and deeply stupid. From that moment on I can hardly be reproached for making a film that is about stupid people.”

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Author:Claude Chabrol

“I like to have the screen full of color, twenty colors on the screen at once, fifty colors. There are no dominants despite what people have said.”

People Said Color Twenties Screens Despite Fifty

Author:Claude Chabrol

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