Alain Resnais
It's painful, either because the people onscreen have died, or because I don't think the direction is good. There's always something.
Alain ResnaisLouvre. Before, you had to be an assistant on nine films, and you couldn't just go from making a short to a feature.
Alain ResnaisIt was repugnant, but it was the only way to communicate.
Alain ResnaisThat'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.
Alain ResnaisI 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.
Alain ResnaisI'd even say it's a realistic film because that's the way it happens in our heads; that was the idea.
Alain ResnaisSo I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.
Alain ResnaisOh, yes, that never happened to me in my life before. It was a risky film, and I warned the producer.
Alain ResnaisThe heroine's memory, her affair with the German soldier, was the past, but the sound was in the present; we hear the sounds of Tokyo.
Alain ResnaisThey 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.
Alain Resnais
