Top 12 Quotes by Alain Resnais

The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback.

So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.

It was repugnant, but it was the only way to communicate.

Since we had little money and few documents, we had nothing.

That's easy to answer: I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.

Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make.

I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment.

I'd even say it's a realistic film because that's the way it happens in our heads; that was the idea.

I never thought of becoming a director. When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me - I still watch silent films.

There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better.