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Jacques Rivette
 
Date of birth: 01 March 1928
Date of death: Alive (or unknown)
Country Of Origin: France
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Film Director

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    Jacques Rivette (born March 1, 1928) is a French film director. With Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette is considered to be the most experimental of the French New Wave directors. Like Godard, he had a background in film criticism, but he also loved popular American cinema, especially genre directors such as Robert Aldrich and Frank Tashlin. Rivette's stories progress in unconventional ways - often following multiple plot lines that can be romantic, mysterious, and comic all at o .... (More...)
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" And I took a long time to appreciate Lynch. "

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

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" And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea what I saw, all I know is that I left the theater floating six feet above the ground. "

Jacques Rivette
" 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. "

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

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

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" If I do something sub-Hitchcock, I'm already very happy. "

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" If you want to call Secret Defense a policier, it doesn't bother me. It's just that it's a policier without any cops. "

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

Jacques Rivette
" Of course we thought about it when we made Secret Defense, even if dramatically, our film is Vertigo in reverse. "

Jacques Rivette
" One play by Moliere might be less good than another, but it is vital and exciting in relation to the entire oeuvre. "

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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. "

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

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