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
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.
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.
proud film responsible
I've never made any concessions, so I am 100% responsible for my films. This makes me feel very proud.
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.