Jean Renoir Quotations

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

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.

In this world, there is one terrible thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.

Everyone has his reasons.

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

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

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

I believe that perfection handicaps cinema.

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

A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.