Jean-Pierre Melville Quotes

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.

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.

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

I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing.