We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?
JEAN COCTEAUThe public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
More Jean Cocteau Quotes
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French people are Italian people in a bad mood.
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We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
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Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.
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Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.
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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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