The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn’t be in flashback.
About Alain Resnais
Alain Resnaiswas a French film director and screenwriter whose career extended over more than six decades. After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct short films including Night and Fog (1956), an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps.
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So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.
French film director (1922-2014)
Oh, yes, that never happened to me in my life before. It was a risky film, and I warned the producer.
French film director (1922-2014)
Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make.
French film director (1922-2014)
I am never driven. Every film I’ve made has been an assignment.
French film director (1922-2014)
I’d even say it’s a realistic film because that’s the way it happens in our heads; that was the idea.
French film director (1922-2014)
It was repugnant, but it was the only way to communicate.
French film director (1922-2014)
That’s easy to answer: 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.
French film director (1922-2014)
I never thought of becoming a director. When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me – I still watch silent films.
French film director (1922-2014)
Since we had little money and few documents, we had nothing.
French film director (1922-2014)
I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.
French film director (1922-2014)
The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn’t be in flashback.
French film director (1922-2014)
There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better.
French film director (1922-2014)