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
hate love-you four
When critics love your film, you love critics. When they hate your film, you hate critics. It's the same everywhere, but maybe especially in France, where we have pretty good critics, except for three or four newspapers that are really dogmatic.
writing scripts needs
I write scripts by myself. It's not for everybody. It's someone's personal work. I need to be in love with the subject.
fighting tyrants ideas
In the States, I learned to fight for every idea. Sometimes, a director has to be a tyrant to keep the quality.
children cutting order
When I was a child, I had a ViewMaster, those red box glasses with little discs, so that you can see 3D images. They were my first steps in cinema. I was eight years old, I would cut and change the order of the images and that's how I created films that subsequently I recorded and projected and showed my friends. So I already took my first steps in 3D when I was eight years old.
france suspects
In France, it's very suspect when you have a success.
cutting europe important
For me, the most important word in cinema is the word freedom. For example, in Europe, we've got freedom, we've got the final cut and that's something which is marvellous.
stupid mind littles
All day my mind drifts off into fantasies and little stupid jokes.
stars war talking
I love science fiction but I don't like fantastic [cinema]. For example, if you have a magical ring and you can explode the world with it. What are we talking about? You know, it's not interesting. I don't like Lord of the Rings. Even Star Wars, for me, I don't understand this kind of story. But Alien, because the rules of the game are very precise, it could happen. I love science fiction. I have an idea about robots in the future.
thinking toys film
I think of a film as being like a toy train.
children kids imagination
When I was a kid, I used to escape from my family with my imagination, and I kept this spirit into my adult life. This doesn't always happen. All children have imagination, but for some it doesn't carry over.
exercise imagination brain
It's always been pretty easy for me to exercise my imagination. The other part of the brain, the one that does mathematics, is a nightmare for me. It doesn't work at all.
play paris political
If I would want to have a huge audience, I would make American movies, not French movies, because there is a limit of course with French language. If I prefer to shoot in my own language, it is to play with my language, to play in my Paris, and I have complete freedom in France. It's so amazing. If American directors could imagine how free I am, they would have asked for political asylum immediately.
believe imagination telephones
I believe in imagination. I was a worker when I was 17. Between 17 and 21, I was a worker in the telephone company and imagination saved my life.
choices actors done
If you make the right choice in casting, your work is nearly done already. You don't have to spend a lot of time directing the actors, because they're so well suited to the parts.