Jean Renoir Quotes

The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience, and a little love, we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called man.

The real hell of life is everyone has his reasons.

Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?

The most skilled hand is never anything but the servant of the mind.

Everyone has his reasons." Octave (Jean Renoir) in "The Rules of the Game.

You see, in this world, there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.

The only things that are important in life are the things you remember.

A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it up and makes it again.

I am against great themes and great subjects ... You can't film an idea. The camera is an instrument for recording physical impact.

Among seekers of truth, painters perhaps come closest to discovering the secret of the balance of forces of the universe, and hence of man's fulfillment.

I considered that the world, and especially the cinema, was burdened with false gods. My task was to overthrow them. Sword in hand, I was ready to consecrate my life to the task. But the false gods are still there. My perseverance during a half-century of cinema has perhaps helped to topple a few of them. It has likewise helped me to discover that some of the gods were real, and had no need to be toppled.

The truly terrible thing is that everybody has their reasons.

Nature is millions of things. And there are millions of ways of understanding its preoccupations.

The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons.

The real hell of life is that everyone has his reasons.

When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting.

The truly terrible thing is, everyone has his reasons

The foundation of all civilization is loitering.

Painters know that material needs are relative; and that the satisfactions of the mind are absolute.

There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.