There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator.
ALAIN RESNAISThere cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator.
ALAIN RESNAISFor some reason the more time that elapses after the film opens, the more favorable the reviews become.
ALAIN RESNAISFor me an unfavorable initial reaction happens fairly often.
ALAIN RESNAISI can’t see any reason why a film shouldn’t be stylized and visually beautiful. I don’t think a beautiful set is pretentious.
ALAIN RESNAISI don’t think that there is any such thing as an old film; you don’t say, ‘I read an old book by Flaubert,’ or ‘I saw an old play by Moliere.’
ALAIN RESNAISWhen I was 12 I made some little films with my friends. I tried to make gangster films, like Fantomas, but I remember being very disappointed with them.
ALAIN RESNAISWhen I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me-I still watch silent films.
ALAIN RESNAISI am never driven. Every film Ive made has been an assignment.
ALAIN RESNAISI never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.
ALAIN RESNAISWe should all die with a sharp, brusque heart attack. My father was lucky like that.
ALAIN RESNAISSo I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.
ALAIN RESNAISI saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.
ALAIN RESNAISMy films seem to be better understood and better received by the monthly publications
ALAIN RESNAIS. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable.
ALAIN RESNAISIt was repugnant, but it was the only way to communicate.
ALAIN RESNAISThey weren’t frightening at all. I’m sure they’d be very funny now.
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