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Alain Resnais

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


— Alain Resnais


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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.


— Alain Resnais


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I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.


— Alain Resnais


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


— Alain Resnais


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


— Alain Resnais


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


— Alain Resnais


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Oh, yes, that never happened to me in my life before. It was a risky film, and I warned the producer.


— Alain Resnais


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


— Alain Resnais


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


— Alain Resnais


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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.


— Alain Resnais


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Did you know about Alain Resnais?

He was an eager reader in a range that extended from classics to comic-books but from the age of 10 he became fascinated by films. Both men denied that the film was about Spain but when it was entered for the official competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 1966 an objection from the Spanish government caused it to be withdrawn and it was shown out of competition. After winning the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival the film attracted great attention and provoked many divergent interpretations of how it should be understood encouraged by interviews in which Robbe-Grillet and Resnais themselves appeared to give conflicting explanations of the film.

He had closer links to the 'Left Bank group' of authors and filmmakers who shared a commitment to modernism and an interest in left-wing politics. These films were contemporary with and associated with the French New Wave or nouvelle vague though Resnais did not regard himself as being fully part of that movement.

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