Alain Resnais Quotes

My earliest memories are making little Super 8 films - or watching my brother make stop-motion space spectaculars.

I made movies all the time when I was a kid.

I made two movies very young, and then I had trouble getting a movie made, and so - which was both, I think, a plus and a minus. It was a minus because it made me unhappy.

As a kid, I was a dancer in Dick Whittington, Snow White and Cinderella. When I was 14, I played Baby Bear. I had a big head on, and you couldn't see my face. My mum was very disappointed.

I made my first movie when I was five.

Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.

I always wish I had another shot at it. But, listen, 'Godzilla' is something that I grew up loving. We worked hard to go make one. We kind of blew it. I think everyone gets one.

As a director, your expectation and reality don't always match up, and I think that that's... I think it's a little jarring.

Rajini sir has always been a part of my life from childhood. And I entered into filmmaking because I was influenced by his films.

[Martin] Scorsese says one of the great things he loves about it is how Mark can't get the right shot and he's killing people because he can't get the right shot. It's an example of what film-makers are like.

I love the art form, but working in film can be a disheartening experience.

I've never made the film I wanted to make. No matter what happens, it never turns out exactly as I hoped.

I thought when I started writing that I'd have a book out in four or five years, and as it became apparent that that wasn't going to happen, I became increasingly frustrated and unsure of myself.

Sometimes I make films about scenes other filmmakers would leave out, so I just make the film out of all the things they wouldn't put in. Poetry allows you to do this more than prose, for example.

You make a film and always hope you're going make "Citizen Kane" or "The Bicycle Thief." You make the film, and for one reason or another, one clicks and one doesn't, but it's out of your control completely.

Making the films is never easy, but actually that aspect of trying to make a better film or to keep the standard high is something that comes organically.

I'm a film rat. I love being in front of a camera. I love being behind a camera. I love talking to the director. I love talking film.

My original goal was just to do stand-up but then I became interested in films - writing a film, shooting one someday, and getting to act in them.

Any film is at least better than real life.

My first memoir, 'Home,' was about my childhood, early training and formative years in the Theater, i am so pleased that my good friends at the Hachette Book Group have encouraged me to share the next phase of my life, beginning with my arrival in Hollywood and the wonderful movies and television programs I was asked to be a part of.

Every few years when it's been another five years that have passed and I haven't made a film and the depression starts taking over totally, I allow myself to do a commercial. And then I feel really dirty and get to work promptly.

The more we can be honest about ourselves as filmmakers, than the more we can be honest with people who see the films.

There are moments when I can wander through my childhood's landscape, through rooms long ago, remember how they were furnished, where the pictures hung on the walls, the way the light fell. It's like a film - little scraps of a film, which I set running and which I can reconstruct to the last detail - except their smell.

For me, I always go back to when I was 10 years old and, I think between the time I was 10 and going to high school, were some of the greatest moments for me, because I had a group of friends that I was inseparable with, who we would make movies with all the time.

I usually make films about what's on my mind at any given time.