Alain Resnais
Alain Resnais
Alain Resnaiswas a French film director whose career extended over more than six decades. After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct a number of short films which included Night and Fog, an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth3 June 1922
CountryFrance
communication emotion form
There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator.
The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback.
appetite earn miraculous special
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.
becoming passage watch
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.
direction either people
It's painful, either because the people onscreen have died, or because I don't think the direction is good. There's always something.
contrast rarely remember situation violent
They got the idea. In life, we rarely remember a whole song; in Potter, there's often a violent contrast between the situation and the song.
maybe people work
There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better.
happened life risky warned
Oh, yes, that never happened to me in my life before. It was a risky film, and I warned the producer.
happens realistic
I'd even say it's a realistic film because that's the way it happens in our heads; that was the idea.
asked black corpses editing mix white
For the first time, I used a mix of black and white with color. In the editing room, I asked myself, What are you doing manipulating corpses this way?