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Jacques Rivette

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And I took a long time to appreciate Lynch.


— Jacques Rivette


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And the fact that I see so many films really seems to amaze certain people.


— Jacques Rivette


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Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.


— Jacques Rivette


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For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave.


— Jacques Rivette


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I guess I like a lot of directors. Or at least I try to.


— Jacques Rivette


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Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.


— Jacques Rivette


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Their films would probably be better if they'd seen a few more films, which runs counter to this idiotic theory that you run the risk of being influenced if you see too much.


— Jacques Rivette


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When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.


— Jacques Rivette


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Whereas with Sirk, everything is always filmed. No matter what the script, he's always a real director.


— Jacques Rivette


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About Jacques Rivette






Did you know about Jacques Rivette?

He was a member of the French New Wave a group that included François Truffaut Jean-Luc Godard Éric Rohmer and Claude Chabrol who all began their careers as film critics at Cahiers du Cinéma in the 1950s and gained international recognition as film directors in the 1960s (though Rivette perhaps had greater success and recognition as a filmmaker in the 1970s). In 1998 Entertainment Weekly ranked the film 99 in a list of the 100 greatest films ever made and David Thomson called it "the most innovative film since Citizen Kane". Inspired by Jean Cocteau's book on the making of La Belle et la Bête Rivette made his first short film Aux Quatre Coins in 1949.

Film critic Raphaël Bassan has said that Rivette is "the only filmmaker of the ex-New Wave—along with Godard—who keeps making truly personal work on the level of film while his colleagues from the early days have long rejoined the ranks of the qualité française [mainstream French films]" Francois Truffaut said that the French New Wave happened because of Rivette and Marc Chevrie has called Rivette "vaguely legendary but largely unknown. As a film critic he expressed his admiration for popular American cinema especially genre directors such as Robert Aldrich Otto Preminger Alfred Hitchcock and Frank Tashlin. His films often combine the paranoid and conspiratorial crime stories of films by Louis Feuillade and Fritz Lang with the more carefree characters of the films of Jean Renoir and Howard Hawks.

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