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
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.
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.
interesting negative easy
It's always more interesting and more difficult to make something positive than negative. To be negative is very easy.
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.
proud film responsible
I've never made any concessions, so I am 100% responsible for my films. This makes me feel very proud.
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.
france directors imagine
In France, I am so free. I have more freedom than most American directors could dare to even imagine.
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.
generosity majority speak
When you speak about generosity, about something good we have inside ourselves, you're speaking to the majority.
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.
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.
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.
france suspects
In France, it's very suspect when you have a success.