Jean-Pierre Melville Quotes

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

I believe that you must be madly in love with cinema to create films. You also need a huge cinematic baggage.

It's the honest point of view of an artist: You have to please.I'd like viewers to come away from my films unsure whether they've understood them. I want to leave them wondering.

I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing.

There is no greater solitude than that of the samurai unless it is that of the tiger in the jungle... Perhaps...