Jacques Rivette Quotes
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I guess I like a lot of directors. Or at least I try to.
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I reject the word 'script' entirely-at any rate in the usual sense. I prefer the old usage-usually scenario-which it had in the Commedia dell'Arte, meaning an outline or scheme: it implies a dynamism, a number of ideas and principles from which one can set out to find the best possible approach to filming.
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Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.
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And the fact that I see so many films really seems to amaze certain people.
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For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave.
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And I took a long time to appreciate Lynch.
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Kubrick is a machine, a mutant, a Martian. He has no human feeling whatsoever. But it's great when the machine films other machines, as in 2001.
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And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea what I saw, all I know is that I left the theater floating six feet above the ground.
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When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.
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Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.
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