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It was repugnant, but it was the only way to communicate.
Alain Resnais / Film Director
Communicate
Talking
Way
Repugnant
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Since we had little money and few documents, we had nothing.
Alain Resnais / Film Director
Documents
Little Money
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I am never driven. Every film Ive made has been an assignment.
Alain Resnais / Film Director
Assignments
Driven
Film
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I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment.
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Driven
Assignment
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The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback.
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Coexist
Flashback
Past
Present
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So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.
Alain Resnais / Film Director
Film
Formal
Technique
Used
Emotionally
Perceptive
Techniques
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I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.
Alain Resnais / Film Director
New York
Sight
Singing
Detective
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Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make.
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Luck
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I'd even say it's a realistic film because that's the way it happens in our heads; that was the idea.
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Realistic
Heads
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Oh, yes, that never happened to me in my life before. It was a risky film, and I warned the producer.
Alain Resnais / Film Director
Life Me My Life
Producer
Risky
Warned
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There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better.
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Melancholy
Maybe
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A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I'm extremely comfortable with my style.
Alain Resnais / Film Director
Film
Might
Style
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There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator.
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Communication
Emotion
Form
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I can't see any reason why a film shouldn't be stylized and visually beautiful. I don't think a beautiful set is pretentious.
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Beautiful
Reason Why
Thinking
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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.
Alain Resnais / Film Director
Movie
Appetite
Film
Special
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My films seem to be better understood and better received by the monthly publications. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable.
Alain Resnais / Film Director
Film
Firsts
Television
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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.
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Impact
Silent
Twelve
Passage
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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.
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Appetite
Filmmaking
Miraculous
Special
Earn
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For me an unfavorable initial reaction happens fairly often. For some reason the more time that elapses after the film opens, the more favorable the reviews become.
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Film
Reactions
Reason
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When I was 12 I made some little films with my friends. I tried to make gangster films, like Fantomas, but I remember being very disappointed with them. They weren't frightening at all. I'm sure they'd be very funny now.
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Film
Littles
Remember
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When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me-I still watch silent films. I don't think that there is any such thing as an old film; you don't say, 'I read an old book by Flaubert,' or 'I saw an old play by Moliere.'
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Book
Impact
Thinking
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We should all die with a sharp, brusque heart attack. My father was lucky like that. One day he went hunting. He had a good day, he killed a lot of game, he was with his best friends. He said, "Ah, I'm still a good hunter." Then he said, "I don't feel well," and in 30 seconds it was all over.
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Father
Good Day
Heart
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