It's always more interesting and more difficult to make something positive than negative. To be negative is very easy.
Jean-Pierre JeunetWhen 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.
Jean-Pierre JeunetI've never made any concessions, so I am 100% responsible for my films. This makes me feel very proud.
Jean-Pierre JeunetIn Hollywood everything is formatted, everything is compulsory, so therefore we have to follow the law of benefits and profit and money, let us say the law of Hollywood.
Jean-Pierre JeunetI'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.
Jean-Pierre JeunetI love science fiction but I don't like fantastic [cinema]. For example, if you have a magical ring and you can explode the world with it. What are we talking about? You know, it's not interesting. I don't like Lord of the Rings. Even Star Wars, for me, I don't understand this kind of story. But Alien, because the rules of the game are very precise, it could happen. I love science fiction. I have an idea about robots in the future.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet