Alain Resnais Quotes

My films seem to be better understood and better received by the monthly publications

For me an unfavorable initial reaction happens fairly often.

. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable.

I 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.’

They weren’t frightening at all. I’m sure they’d be very funny now.

I 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.

I am never driven. Every film Ive made has been an assignment.