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Top 25 Jean-Pierre Jeunet Quotes (2024 Update)

Jean-Pierre Jeunet Quote: “It’s always more interesting and more difficult to make something positive than negative. To be negative is very easy.”

1. “It’s always more interesting and more difficult to make something positive than negative. To be negative is very easy.”

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Jean-Pierre Jeunet Quote: “When I was a kid, I used to escape from my family with my imagination, and I kept this spirit into my adult life. This doesn’t always happen. All children have imagination, but for some it doesn’t carry over.”

2. “When I was a kid, I used to escape from my family with my imagination, and I kept this spirit into my adult life. This doesn’t always happen. All children have imagination, but for some it doesn’t carry over.”

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Jean-Pierre Jeunet Quote: “I think of a film as being like a toy train.”

3. “I think of a film as being like a toy train.”

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Jean-Pierre Jeunet Quote: “If you make the right choice in casting, your work is nearly done already. You don’t have to spend a lot of time directing the actors, because they’re so well suited to the parts.”

4. “If you make the right choice in casting, your work is nearly done already. You don’t have to spend a lot of time directing the actors, because they’re so well suited to the parts.”

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Jean-Pierre Jeunet Quote: “I like looking back at people’s faces in the dark. I like noticing details that no one else sees. But I hate it in the old American movies when drivers don’t watch the road.”

5. “I like looking back at people’s faces in the dark. I like noticing details that no one else sees. But I hate it in the old American movies when drivers don’t watch the road.”

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Jean-Pierre Jeunet Quote: “All day my mind drifts off into fantasies and little stupid jokes.”

6. “All day my mind drifts off into fantasies and little stupid jokes.”

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Jean-Pierre Jeunet Quote: “I like the cinema of people like Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton. I am not keen on trying to reproduce reality – for that you should do documentaries.”

7. “I like the cinema of people like Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton. I am not keen on trying to reproduce reality – for that you should do documentaries.”

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Jean-Pierre Jeunet Quote: “For me, the most important word in cinema is the word freedom. For example, in Europe, we’ve got freedom, we’ve got the final cut and that’s something which is marvellous.”

8. “For me, the most important word in cinema is the word freedom. For example, in Europe, we’ve got freedom, we’ve got the final cut and that’s something which is marvellous.”

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Jean-Pierre Jeunet Quote: “This is one of the things I don’t like so much about French cinema – we have tendency to concentrate on actors and dialogue and we don’t care so much about the visual aspect. I love when you use all the elements at your disposal.”

9. “This is one of the things I don’t like so much about French cinema – we have tendency to concentrate on actors and dialogue and we don’t care so much about the visual aspect. I love when you use all the elements at your disposal.”

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Jean-Pierre Jeunet Quote: “I write scripts by myself. It’s not for everybody. It’s someone’s personal work. I need to be in love with the subject.”

10. “I write scripts by myself. It’s not for everybody. It’s someone’s personal work. I need to be in love with the subject.”

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Jean-Pierre Jeunet Quote: “There is a new philosophy for weapons: it’s more expensive to hurt people than to kill people. It’s terrible. When you have a band of guys on the battlefield, if someone is dead, he’s dead. If someone is injured then they have to take care of him, so six people are busy.”

11. “There is a new philosophy for weapons: it’s more expensive to hurt people than to kill people. It’s terrible. When you have a band of guys on the battlefield, if someone is dead, he’s dead. If someone is injured then they have to take care of him, so six people are busy.”

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Jean-Pierre Jeunet Quote: “I thought all I had to do was to buy a camera and become a film director. So when I left school I worked at a telephone company, which gave me the money to buy the basic equipment including the camera, the projector and the screen.”

12. “I thought all I had to do was to buy a camera and become a film director. So when I left school I worked at a telephone company, which gave me the money to buy the basic equipment including the camera, the projector and the screen.”

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Jean-Pierre Jeunet Quote: “I think we’re entering a new period of filmmaking that’s analogous to switching from black-and-white to color, or from silent to sound. The medium is completely flexible, and it’s not bound by anything. If you imagine something, you can do it.”

13. “I think we’re entering a new period of filmmaking that’s analogous to switching from black-and-white to color, or from silent to sound. The medium is completely flexible, and it’s not bound by anything. If you imagine something, you can do it.”

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Jean-Pierre Jeunet Quote: “It’s always been pretty easy for me to exercise my imagination. The other part of the brain, the one that does mathematics, is a nightmare for me. It doesn’t work at all.”

14. “It’s always been pretty easy for me to exercise my imagination. The other part of the brain, the one that does mathematics, is a nightmare for me. It doesn’t work at all.”

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Jean-Pierre Jeunet Quote: “I believe in imagination. I was a worker when I was 17. Between 17 and 21, I was a worker in the telephone company and imagination saved my life.”

15. “I believe in imagination. I was a worker when I was 17. Between 17 and 21, I was a worker in the telephone company and imagination saved my life.”

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Jean-Pierre Jeunet Quote: “In France, I am so free. I have more freedom than most American directors could dare to even imagine.”

16. “In France, I am so free. I have more freedom than most American directors could dare to even imagine.”

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Jean-Pierre Jeunet Quote: “I would be wary about working in the States because freedom is an important thing. I have made seven films and even on Alien Resurrection I had the freedom. I had to fight and struggle a bit but in the end I won out.”

17. “I would be wary about working in the States because freedom is an important thing. I have made seven films and even on Alien Resurrection I had the freedom. I had to fight and struggle a bit but in the end I won out.”

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Jean-Pierre Jeunet Quote: “I’ve never made any concessions, so I am 100% responsible for my films. This makes me feel very proud.”

18. “I’ve never made any concessions, so I am 100% responsible for my films. This makes me feel very proud.”

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Jean-Pierre Jeunet Quote: “I’m very slow, and I do everything myself. I remember I spent three days to change the size of something I had sketched because I felt it was too small.”

19. “I’m very slow, and I do everything myself. I remember I spent three days to change the size of something I had sketched because I felt it was too small.”

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Jean-Pierre Jeunet Quote: “I hate to lose time on the set. On the set, you have to go at a good pace, because the clock is your master. For that reason, I have to know exactly what I’m trying to get beforehand.”

20. “I hate to lose time on the set. On the set, you have to go at a good pace, because the clock is your master. For that reason, I have to know exactly what I’m trying to get beforehand.”

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Jean-Pierre Jeunet Quote: “When you speak about generosity, about something good we have inside ourselves, you’re speaking to the majority.”

21. “When you speak about generosity, about something good we have inside ourselves, you’re speaking to the majority.”

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Jean-Pierre Jeunet Quote: “In the States, I learned to fight for every idea. Sometimes, a director has to be a tyrant to keep the quality.”

22. “In the States, I learned to fight for every idea. Sometimes, a director has to be a tyrant to keep the quality.”

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Jean-Pierre Jeunet Quote: “In general, I have some precise ideas about everything, because the film is completed in my head before we ever start shooting. With casting, I am always present, even for the smallest character.”

23. “In general, I have some precise ideas about everything, because the film is completed in my head before we ever start shooting. With casting, I am always present, even for the smallest character.”

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Jean-Pierre Jeunet Quote: “In France, it’s very suspect when you have a success.”

24. “In France, it’s very suspect when you have a success.”

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Jean-Pierre Jeunet Quote: “When critics love your film, you love critics. When they hate your film, you hate critics. It’s the same everywhere, but maybe especially in France, where we have pretty good critics, except for three or four newspapers that are really dogmatic.”

25. “When critics love your film, you love critics. When they hate your film, you hate critics. It’s the same everywhere, but maybe especially in France, where we have pretty good critics, except for three or four newspapers that are really dogmatic.”

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Jean-Pierre Jeunet Quote: “In Hollywood everything is formatted, everything is compulsory, so therefore we have to follow the law of benefits and profit and money, let us say the law of Hollywood.”

26. “In Hollywood everything is formatted, everything is compulsory, so therefore we have to follow the law of benefits and profit and money, let us say the law of Hollywood.”

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

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