Marcel Carne Quotes

• When I last went to Italy, over two years ago, I had a lot more trouble understanding the language than I used to when I lived there for a year. I used to speak very little but I could understand very well.

  Marcel Carne

• Well, you know, I’m much older than I look.

  Marcel Carne

• Well, I always run the risk of falling on my face, which has in fact happened.

  Marcel Carne

• The problem is that to be a producer, one must be a gambler, and the greatest French producers were gamblers.

  Marcel Carne

• My father’s sister never married in order to raise me.

  Marcel Carne

• It’s nice to know that people appreciate and respect you.

  Marcel Carne

• If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings.

  Marcel Carne

• I was very nervous at the beginning of Hotel du Nord.

  Marcel Carne

• I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.

  Marcel Carne

• I don’t know what they’ll say when I die. I don’t give a damn, but they’ll probably cry.

  Marcel Carne

• I also won one from the emperor of Japan, with a prize for the arts. That’s important.

  Marcel Carne

• For people to understand me when I travel, I speak with my hands.

  Marcel Carne

• But I still always felt the absence of a mother.

  Marcel Carne

• A lot of people are upset that I’m not working. They say it’s a disgrace.

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Marcel Carne (14)

Birth:	18th August, 1906
Death:	31st October, 1996
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Director

About

Marcel Carné was a French film director. A key figure in the poetic realism movement, Carné's best known films include Port of Shadows, Le Jour Se Lève, The Devil's Envoys and Children of Paradise, the latter of which is often cited as one of the greatest films of all time.

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