Jean-Pierre Jeunet quote: "I hate the naturalism, ... especially in the French films. They don't care about the picture. ... And they speak and they speak. It's a drama in a kitchen, a couple fighting."

Quand le doigt montre le ciel, l’imbécile regarde le doigt. [When a finger is pointing up to the ...
JEAN-PIERRE JEUNET

It's the perfect place to work.
JEAN-PIERRE JEUNET

[Superstitious Mathilde (Tautou) refuses to believe the news that her fiance, Manech (Gaspard Ulliel...
JEAN-PIERRE JEUNET

A Very Long Engagement
JEAN-PIERRE JEUNET

Amelie
JEAN-PIERRE JEUNET

You know, when you have some success in France, they don't like you,
JEAN-PIERRE JEUNET

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by...
JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE

We shall say clearly that any symbol conspicuously displaying religious affiliation in school is pro...
JEAN-PIERRE RAFFARIN

It's a different outlook, and one that I understand. When you are a former member of the Warsaw ...
JEAN-PIERRE RAFFARIN

This constitution recognises the need for social dialogue involving labour and management; it involv...
JEAN-PIERRE RAFFARIN

When I see the cultural diversity that exists today, I feel that we must defend it, and we need Euro...
JEAN-PIERRE RAFFARIN

In documentaries, you're confronted with reality; you can not manipulate or move it.
JEAN-PIERRE DARDENNE

We must stress that the euro has been beneficial to the European Union because, otherwise, in this c...
JEAN-PIERRE RAFFARIN

I think that we must come together progressively, with the British, the Germans, the Spanish, the It...
JEAN-PIERRE RAFFARIN

Prohibiting a visible religious sign, which isn't a manifestation of militancy, would look like ...
JEAN-PIERRE RAFFARIN

I believe that transatlantic relations are very important and that President Bush's visit to Bru...
JEAN-PIERRE RAFFARIN

We have to feed our loved ones, but at what cost. A dead man or woman can’t feed the living.
JAMES JEAN-PIERRE

I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious r...
JEAN-PIERRE RAFFARIN

Eat healthily, sleep well, breathe deeply, move harmoniously.
JEAN-PIERRE BARRAL

There is no greater solitude than that of the samurai unless it is that of the tiger in the jungle.....
JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE

Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solel...
JEAN-PIERRE RAFFARIN

Grown ups’ could learn a lesson from watching cartoons.
JAMES JEAN-PIERRE

- Fanciulla, non so se sei una dea o una mortale, se sei una dea certo sei Artemide con le tue ancel...
JEAN-PIERRE VERNANT

Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Arm! Advance! Hope of France! Gaily! gaily! closed o...
PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER

Our friends, the enemy. [Fr., Nos amis, les ennemis.]
PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER

It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certa...
PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER

In Paris a queer little man you may see, A little man all in gray; Rosy and round as an apple ...
PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER

Ye Gods! but she is wondrous fair! For me her constant flame appears; The garland she hath cu...
PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER

Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting, The parting hour is come! And fast thy soul is fleeting ...
PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER

Each year his mighty armies marched forth in gallant show, Their enemies were targets, their bulle...
PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER

Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945 Come to the Bible, not to study the hi...
JEAN-PIERRE DE CAUSSADE

So we follow our wandering paths, and the very darkness acts as our guide and our doubts serve to re...
JEAN-PIERRE DE CAUSSADE

And in the years he reigned; through all the country wide, There was no cause for weeping, save wh...
PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER

Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark prof...
PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER

What we know is not much; what we do not know is immense.
PIERRE

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. •Jean Pierre Claris De Floria...
JEAN PIERRE CLARIS DE FLORIAN

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
JEAN PIERRE CLARIS DE FLORIAN

My family background was deeply Christian.
ABBE PIERRE

And all around is the desert; a corner of the mournful kingdom of sand.
PIERRE LOTI

It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative ...
ABBE PIERRE

Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the cou...
PIERRE TRUDEAU

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.
PIERRE CORNEILLE

When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.
ABBE PIERRE

It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.
ABBE PIERRE

Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
ABBE PIERRE

I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.
ABBE PIERRE

Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.
ABBE PIERRE

Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.
ABBE PIERRE

Hope is not a matter of age.
ABBE PIERRE

People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in peopl...
ABBE PIERRE

The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a ...
ABBE PIERRE

This dark brightness that falls from the stars.
PIERRE CORNEILLE

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
PIERRE CORNEILLE

In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.
PIERRE CORNEILLE

What makes eBay successful - the real value and the real power at eBay - is the community. It's ...
PIERRE OMIDYAR

In the event of a victory over Germany by Soviet Russia and England, Bolshevism in Europe would inev...
PIERRE LAVAL

Microfinance initiatives are very high-touch models. The loan officer meets with local groups of bor...
PIERRE OMIDYAR

People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in peopl...
ABBE PIERRE

It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side...
ABBE PIERRE

It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.
ABBE PIERRE

Brave men are brave from the very first.
PIERRE CORNEILLE

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwh...
PIERRE CONEILLE

Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.
PIERRE CORNEILLE

Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats. [Fr., Qui peut ce qui lui plait, commande...
PIERRE CORNEILLE

Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it. [Lat., Ici l'honneur m'oblige, et j'y veux satisfai...
PIERRE CORNEILLE

All great virtues become great men. [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame. [Fr., Le crime fait la honte et non pas l'echafaud...
PIERRE CORNEILLE

All evils are equal when they are extreme. [Fr., Et tous maux sont pareils alors qu'ils sont extre...
PIERRE CORNEILLE

To myself alone do I owe my fame. [Fr., Je ne dois qu'a moi seul toute ma renommee.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE

Let us be friends, Cinna, it is I who invite you to be so. [Fr., Soyons amis, Cinna, c'est moi qui...
PIERRE CORNEILLE

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.
PIERRE CORNEILLE

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.
PIERRE CHARRON

Peace is produced by war.
PIERRE CORNEILLE

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but...
PIERRE CHARRON

Happiness seems made to be shared.
PIERRE CORNEILLE

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.
PIERRE CORNEILLE

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
PIERRE CORNEILLE

The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.
PIERRE CHARRON

A liar is full of oaths.
PIERRE CORNEILLE

All evils are equal when they are extreme.
PIERRE CORNEILLE

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.
PIERRE CORNEILLE

Those who resolve to conquer or die, are rarely conquered.
PIERRE CONEILLE

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
PIERRE CORNEILLE

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.
PIERRE BONNARD

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
PIERRE CORNEILLE

A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.
PIERRE CORNEILLE

Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.
PIERRE CORNEILLE

A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe.
PIERRE BURTON

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
PIERRE CORNEILLE

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.
PIERRE CORNEILLE

I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.
PIERRE CORNEILLE

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
PIERRE CORNEILLE

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhil...
PIERRE CONEILLE

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
PIERRE CORNEILLE

The true science and study of man is man.
PIERRE CHARRON

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
PIERRE CORNEILLE

Guess if you can, choose if you dare.
PIERRE CORNEILLE

And the combat ceased, for want of combatants. [Fr., Et le combat cessa, faute de combattants.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE

Brave men are brave from the very first. [Fr., Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE

A liar is always lavish of oaths. [Fr., Un menteur est toujours prodigue de serments.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE

A good memory is needed once we have lied. [Fr., Il faut bonne memoire apres qu'on a menti.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our frien...
PIERRE CORNEILLE

He who forgives readily only invites offense. [Fr., Qui pardonne aisement invite a l'offenser.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
PIERRE CORNEILLE

The jean! The jean is the destructor! It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity. The jean must b...
PIERRE CARDIN

Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare. [Lat., Devine, si tu peux, et choisis, si tu l'oses.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE

He who is hated by all can not expect to live long. [Fr., Qui vit hai de tous ne saurait longtemps...
PIERRE CORNEILLE

Happiness seems made to be shared. [Fr., Le bonheur semble fait pour etre partage.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE

Don’t force your gifts: if you are a rascal, live like one; if you are half honest, be half honest...
PIERRE CERESOLE

If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, ...
PIERRE GALLOIS

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
PIERRE BEAUMARCHAIS

The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it...
PIERRE CHARRON

I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was ...
PIERRE LOTI

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influe...
PIERRE BOURDIEU

Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.
PIERRE BONNARD

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.
PIERRE BONNARD

After months of preparation working with a stylist who explained to me how a fashion house runs and ...
PIERRE NINEY

We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.
PIERRE CORNEILLE

The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.
PIERRE BOURDIEU

He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.
PIERRE CORNEILLE

It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and...
PIERRE BAYLE

Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, inso...
PIERRE BOURDIEU

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.
PIERRE BONNARD

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.
PIERRE CORNEILLE

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.
PIERRE CORNEILLE

Don't allow the pride, ego and insecurities of others stunt your growth.
YVONNE PIERRE

Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.
PIERRE CORNEILLE

But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama bu...
PIERRE LOTI

When you focus on someone's disability you'll overlook their abilities, beauty and uniqueness. Once ...
YVONNE PIERRE

At times, we are the bridge that allows another to re-enter the world after a loss. Don't mistake it...
DANIELLE PIERRE

Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creation...
PIERRE LOTI

The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, w...
ABBE PIERRE

Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recogn...
PIERRE LOTI

The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
PIERRE BAYLE

True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.
PIERRE CORNEILLE

It's ridiculous that time and time again we need a radioactive cloud coming out of a nuclear pow...
PIERRE SCHAEFFER

After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest c...
ABBE PIERRE

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first auth...
PIERRE BAYLE

I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Euro...
PIERRE LAVAL

In the early days of eBay, I articulated for the very first time this belief that people are basical...
PIERRE OMIDYAR

Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, whic...
PIERRE SCHAEFFER

Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.
PIERRE SCHAEFFER

American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.
PIERRE SALINGER

What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they sho...
ABBE PIERRE

Clemency is the surest proof of a true monarch. [Fr., La clemence est la plus belle marque Qui...
PIERRE CORNEILLE

When the winds of life are pushing you back, THAT'S when you push forward the hardest.
YVONNE PIERRE

It's easy to point out other people flaws, but it takes TRUE courage and strength take a look in the...
YVONNE PIERRE

God has ALREADY given you the strength you need, it's up to you to recognize that you were BORN a co...
YVONNE PIERRE

I think it's better to be a woman with some curves. It's more natural.
PIERRE DUKAN

My life is one long curve, full of turning points.
PIERRE TRUDEAU

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.
PIERRE BAYLE

The impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward.
PIERRE SCHAEFFER

An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is n...
PIERRE CORNEILLE

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.
PIERRE CORNEILLE

We need some big guards.
BUTCH PIERRE

We knew what he could be, but he kind of got out of town on us and people saw him.
BUTCH PIERRE

That was when it kicked in, when they kind of started to understand.
BUTCH PIERRE

It's basically Louisiana kids. If you can sign the top two or three Louisiana kids every year, you s...
BUTCH PIERRE

It's a family type thing.
BUTCH PIERRE

As soon as he crosses mid-court, he's a threat to put one up.
BUTCH PIERRE

He's the president of the United States. He's got to work 14 to 16 hours a day, run foreign ...
PIERRE SALINGER

I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through...
PIERRE TRUDEAU

Ambition aspires to descend.
PIERRE CORNEILLE

There is nothing unhealthy about educating youngsters about nutrition.
PIERRE DUKAN

By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them. [Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les sou...
PIERRE CORNEILLE

I need so much time for doing nothing that I have no time for work.
PIERRE REVERDY

He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases! ...
PIERRE CORNEILLE

The shortest follies are the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]
PIERRE CHARRON

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.
PIERRE BEAUMARCHAIS

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in ...
PIERRE BAYLE

in the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.
PIERRE CORRIELLE

When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory.
PIERRE CORNEILLE

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.
PIERRE CORNEILLE

He who allows himself to be insulted, deserves to be.
PIERRE CORNEILLE

He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestow should never remember it.
PIERRE CHARRON

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
PIERRE TRUDEAU

The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we w...
PIERRE TRUDEAU

Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing thei...
PIERRE TRUDEAU

Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, le...
PIERRE TRUDEAU

Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are base...
PIERRE TRUDEAU

Love is a tyrant sparing none.
PIERRE CORNEILLE

Tyrant, step from the throne, and give place to thy master. [Fr., Tyran, descends du trone et fais...
PIERRE CORNEILLE

We ask them to think outside the box when they are nominating. It may be the quiet, shy girl no one ...
CHéRI PIERRE

Show your children tolerance, humility, respect, honesty, and curiosity towards the universe they ar...
PIERRE MOUELHI

Before being able to strive forward, you have to give yourself credit for what you put up with.
PIERRE MOUELHI

I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall J...
PIERRE LOTI

Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirabl...
PIERRE CURIE

Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the popul...
PIERRE BOURDIEU

Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.
PIERRE CORNEILLE

In February of 1996, about six months after I created eBay, I started receiving a spate of complaint...
PIERRE OMIDYAR

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.
PIERRE OMIDYAR

Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be ...
PIERRE BEAUMARCHAIS

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.
PIERRE CORNEILLE

For the first 50 years of your life the food industry is trying to make you fat. Then, the second 50...
PIERRE DUKAN

He who forgives readily only invites offense.
PIERRE CORNEILLE

I can't walk in a toy store in a foreign country without seeing a kid with a minion backpack.
PIERRE COFFIN

How can you tell a story with one frame that, by its simplicity, manages to tell a story, a gag that...
PIERRE COFFIN

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.
PIERRE BOULEZ

A good memory is needed after one has lied.
PIERRE CORNEILLE

I hate the naturalism, ... especially in the French films. They don't care about the picture. ... And they speak and they speak. It's a drama in a kitchen, a couple fighting.

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I hate the naturalism, ... especially in the French films. They don't care about the picture. ... And they speak and they speak. It's a drama in a kitchen, a couple fighting.

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