Scene Quotes

I try to make it look easy, but the behind-the-scenes stuff is the challenge.

Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That’s what I look for.

Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.

With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. – a portrait I made in ’87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we had some naked people gambling. Jane Birkin was the card dealer and I was the player.

Nothing worse than reading a love scene written by your father.

You are not downgrading. Your slate is being cleaned for the next scene.

Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.

We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.

Every actor has three versions of each scene – the one that you rehearse the night before, in your bedroom.