Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Jean-Pierre Jeunetis a French film director and screenwriter known for the films Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children, Alien: Resurrection and Amélie...
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth3 September 1953
care couple drama french hate speak
I hate the naturalism, ... especially in the French films. They don't care about the picture. ... And they speak and they speak. It's a drama in a kitchen, a couple fighting.
law hollywood benefits
In Hollywood everything is formatted, everything is compulsory, so therefore we have to follow the law of benefits and profit and money, let us say the law of Hollywood.
reality people trying
I like the cinema of people like Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton. I am not keen on trying to reproduce reality - for that you should do documentaries.
size three remember
I'm very slow, and I do everything myself. I remember I spent three days to change the size of something I had sketched because I felt it was too small.
hurt philosophy people
There is a new philosophy for weapons: it's more expensive to hurt people than to kill people. It's terrible. When you have a band of guys on the battlefield, if someone is dead, he's dead. If someone is injured then they have to take care of him, so six people are busy.
cinema use actors
This is one of the things I don't like so much about French cinema - we have tendency to concentrate on actors and dialogue and we don't care so much about the visual aspect. I love when you use all the elements at your disposal.
character interesting trying
Each time, I try to find a family of interesting faces. I follow the tradition of films from the 40s - at this time, there were so many interesting faces in France. I often work with the same because there are not thousands and thousands in France. I'm looking for interesting faces and characters actors, and it's not for everybody.
hate dark people
I like looking back at people's faces in the dark. I like noticing details that no one else sees. But I hate it in the old American movies when drivers don't watch the road.
painful frustrating satisfied
When you make something you like and audiences reject it, the experience can be painful. But I've discovered...that when you make something you aren't exactly satisfied with, and someone tells you it's great, that's even mor...e painful and frustrating.
school telephones cameras
I thought all I had to do was to buy a camera and become a film director. So when I left school I worked at a telephone company, which gave me the money to buy the basic equipment including the camera, the projector and the screen.
hate trying pace
I hate to lose time on the set. On the set, you have to go at a good pace, because the clock is your master. For that reason, I have to know exactly what I'm trying to get beforehand.
black-and-white thinking color
I think we're entering a new period of filmmaking that's analogous to switching from black-and-white to color, or from silent to sound. The medium is completely flexible, and it's not bound by anything. If you imagine something, you can do it.
france directors imagine
In France, I am so free. I have more freedom than most American directors could dare to even imagine.
character ideas casting
In general, I have some precise ideas about everything, because the film is completed in my head before we ever start shooting. With casting, I am always present, even for the smallest character.