Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir
Jean Renoirwas a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s. His films La Grande Illusionand The Rules of the Gameare often cited by critics as among the greatest films ever made. He was ranked by the BFI's Sight & Sound poll of critics in 2002 as the fourth greatest director of all time. Among numerous honors accrued...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth15 September 1894
CountryFrance
Wilshire Boulevard, ... It has no smell to it.
Everyone has his reasons.
The real hell of life is that everyone has his reasons.
The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.
In this world, there is one terrible thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.
There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.
Nature is millions of things. And there are millions of ways of understanding its preoccupations.
I believe that perfection handicaps cinema.
The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons.
A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.
I am against great themes and great subjects... You can't film an idea. The camera is an instrument for recording physical impact.
The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience, and a little love, we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called man.