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Alain Resnais

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Alain Chapelle [Ducasse's mentor], Alain Ducasse, Didier Elena - I learned from all of them.
ALAIN DUCASSE Since we had little money and few documents, we had nothing.
ALAIN RESNAIS Oh, yes, that never happened to me in my life before. It was a risky film, and I warned the producer...
ALAIN RESNAIS Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make.
ALAIN RESNAIS It's painful, either because the people onscreen have died, or because I don't think the direction i...
ALAIN RESNAIS It was repugnant, but it was the only way to communicate.
ALAIN RESNAIS I'd even say it's a realistic film because that's the way it happens in our heads; that was the idea...
ALAIN RESNAIS I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.
ALAIN RESNAIS I never thought of becoming a director. When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talki...
ALAIN RESNAIS I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment.
ALAIN RESNAIS For the first time, I used a mix of black and white with color. In the editing room, I asked myself,...
ALAIN RESNAIS The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback.
ALAIN RESNAIS There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work bett...
ALAIN RESNAIS I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment.
ALAIN RESNAIS That's easy to answer: I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a l...
ALAIN RESNAIS I'd even say it's a realistic film because that's the way it happens in our heads; that ...
ALAIN RESNAIS I don't use film in the way that the great auteurs do. I use film, the camera, to record as effe...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an Am...
BARBARA HERSHEY For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the ...
CAMILLA BELLE I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m...
AMBER SMITH It was my first time on the ice, so every time I did something, I obviously wasn't doing it fantasti...
LOUIS BAR There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.
MICHAEL CHABON I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's bo...
MADHUR BHANDARKAR For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the ...
CAMILLA BELLE I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a ci...
JULIE TAYMOR I've worked at this film festival in Telluride called the Telluride Film Festival. Been there si...
BARRY JENKINS I want to be engaged and moved by theatre, there's nothing more disappointing than being left co...
SAMUEL BARNETT I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since ...
PATRICK MARBER I used to rarely go on film sets, as I felt it was very boring to see the same shot being done so ma...
RAM CHARAN These were crimes that upset the community, ... There was pressure to solve them and there were, I t...
BARRY SCHECK I wanted to make myself physically, emotionally and spiritually stronger -- and I did.
JUAN HERNANDEZ The traditional techniques used in getting sleep aren’t much effective any longer and our sleep te...
PAWAN MISHRA I can't invent stuff, but the techniques fiction writers use to create character and suspense can al...
TRACY KIDDER I wondered whether the nuclear transfer techniques could be used to introduce purified macro-molecul...
JOHN GURDON Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably...
QUENTIN TARANTINO I mean, I'm new but I've always been very interested in film making process and I've bee...
CHARLIZE THERON I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.
ED BRADLEY When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make ...
DAMIEN HIRST I feel completely alone - it's like melting, I am the structure, and I am also Alain Robert.
ALAIN ROBERT The film industry is famous -- or infamous -- for its creative accounting techniques that can turn o...
DAN WALTERS I make film to make time pass.
JEAN-LUC GODARD I'm not coming from film school. I learned cinema in the cinema watching films, so you always ha...
WONG KAR-WAI I was a very, very careful printer when I used 8-by-10 film. I probably spent more time on printing ...
RUTH BERNHARD So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.
DAVID STRATHAIRN Mid-size enterprises that used these strategic sourcing techniques recorded more than four times gre...
TIM MINAHAN Every film for every actor is a make-or-break film. I believe every film has the power to break you ...
ABHISHEK BACHCHAN The movies I make - the goal isn't a mass audience. They're not expensive films. So the atte...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to tur...
PARK CHAN-WOOK Ooooh ....... lycra feels good. I could get used to this film role!
CHRISTOPHER REEVE I actually write film music because I'm classically trained on the piano so as well as songwriti...
VANESSA BROWN I have spent more than a decade developing the calibration techniques we needed to obtain this resul...
MARK REID If the only obstacle to the renewal and modernization of France is a choice of personnel, I am compl...
ALAIN JUPPE The program has been under way for three years now and has focused on the development of equipment-t...
BRUCE THOMPSON We are always looking to modify techniques to make our security better.
ANN DAVIS I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - ...
MIKE FIGGIS I'm drawn to emotionally damaged characters because there is more to unlock.
HELENA BONHAM CARTER I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.
DAVID KNOPFLER It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it...
CORY DOCTOROW It is a less formal car, more streamlined, more about the individual.
IAN CAMERON When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to d...
NORMAN JEWISON Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using ...
NATHAN MYHRVOLD I really enjoy doing the fashion shows because they're so emotionally demanding!
ELSA BENITEZ To make a film is easy; to make a good film is war. To make a very good film is a miracle.
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU The approachable individuals are the first ones that I introduce myself to because they make me feel...
SUSAN C. YOUNG I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuf...
STEPHEN COLBERT Let's make these informal associations formal associations to move a political agenda.
BAKARI KITWANA The more I become involved emotionally in my client's cause, the less I am able to do for him.
JOSEPH BALL The reason it takes me so long to make a film, the reason it gets so difficult, is that I'm tryi...
WONG KAR-WAI I think it's a flawed basis. All the facts suggest there are things they didn't look into. We know w...
LEONARD RUBENSTEIN I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about...
NATASHA RICHARDSON Together with Martin, I want to make the best film we can, the most entertaining film we can.
DANIEL CRAIG As far as current inspiration, I'm listenting to a lot of flamenco, because the techniques used for ...
BILLY SHEEHAN I was a really nervous kid. I was extremely sensitive. Incredibly perceptive.
RYAN REYNOLDS I've always played that edge of fact and fiction. I used to be a filmmaker, and certainly in fil...
RUTH OZEKI Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
JIM ROHN Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
JIM ROHN You graduate from film school and move to Hollywood. Hollywood tells you, 'We're not the pla...
BARRY JENKINS But more research needs to be done to show the techniques are safe and effective.
KAREN MILLER [But the film] wasn't designed specifically to be a political statement, ... I didn't make the film ...
NICK CLOONEY Once I'd reached the point where I could squirrel away more than 30 digits a minute in memory pa...
JOSHUA FOER I think it’s a flawed basis, ... All the facts suggest there are things they didn’t look into. We ...
LEONARD RUBENSTEIN Towards the end of last season, Titus was outstanding for us and I have been very happy with Jean-Al...
GRAEME SOUNESS The Mainland Affairs Council currently has not received any formal applications and so I can't respo...
JOSEPH WU I think the situation in Toronto is such that there are funding organizations which make it easy for...
ATOM EGOYAN But I am not going to make any major changes. We are just going to be looking at different technique...
DAMON DILETTI I never want to make a film. I don't wake up in the morning going, 'Ooh, I'd really love...
STEPHEN DALDRY Every bullshit check out, read and watched makes me few percentage stupid and few with a lower IQ. S...
DEYTH BANGER To me, the box-office is basically the cost of film. If your film costs so much and your box-office ...
SUNNY DEOL We were tired, physically and emotionally. But mostly emotionally. We were unable to make plays. It ...
JOE KINCH If you go to a theme park, there will be so many rides. You will get an exciting experience in each ...
VIJAY SETHUPATHI I think when you're young, you're a lot more open-minded, and sometimes you're a lot mor...
ZENDAYA I used to do a lot of casual photography - back in the olden times when one used film - but it had f...
KARA SWISHER I'm an academic and an applied mathematician who studies the control of movement. I've used the mech...
RICHARD KLEIN I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive.
CHRISTOPHER MELONI We got exposed to a lot of unusual building techniques. It's a lot more difficult than people think ...
JOE KLOCEK Basic self-defense classes teach you 200 different techniques for 200 different situations, and the ...
DAVID GRIFFITH People are turning away from the more formal, traditionally posed wedding photos to a more intimate ...
JAMES LEVINE I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
IAN HART I don't know why so many people in America hate Hillary Clinton; I found her to be one of the mo...
PETER NAVARRO My parents worked in the film industry, but they both worked behind the camera, so I like to think t...
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ALAIN MABOUSSOU I'm gonna be working for myself now.
ALAIN MABOUSSOU Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.
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ALAIN LESAGE I am happy and content because I think I am
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ALAIN GAGNON It's a way of showing compassion and sympathy with people in trouble.
ALAIN GAGNON I'd like to get to the point where words like Yom Kippur, or Ramadan, or Christmas become part of th...
ALAIN ELKANN Being moderate or tolerant or open is not a sign of weakness but of civilization and strength, ... I...
ALAIN ELKANN The intention was not to say that all religions are equal but that all people are equal, and that ac...
ALAIN ELKANN By the end of this year 75 percent of our six-inch production will be in Singapore.
ALAIN DUTHEIL How could anyone do this? One job in four private sector jobs depends on exports and the country att...
ALAIN DUHAMEL We have already signed up for 2008, which means we want to continue. But we are realistic as well, b...
ALAIN DASSAS By June we should know the new economic equation. If we have achieved the savings we want then we wi...
ALAIN DASSAS This open-source addition to our existing product line also allows us to bring our core technology t...
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