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Jean-Pierre Melville Quotes

French actor, Birth: 20-10-1917, Death: 2-8-1973
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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.
Jean-Pierre Melville

2.
I believe that you must be madly in love with cinema to create films. You also need a huge cinematic baggage.
Jean-Pierre Melville

3.
It's the honest point of view of an artist: You have to please.I'd like viewers to come away from my films unsure whether they've understood them. I want to leave them wondering.
Jean-Pierre Melville

4.
I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing.
Jean-Pierre Melville