Tati Quotes & Sayings

Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it. — Norman McLaren

Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life. — Lady Gaga

You won't find another Chaplin, you won't find another Keaton, because the school is closed. — Jacques Tati

The magic gets lost in translation. — Richard Roeper

The images are designed, so that after you see the picture two or three times, its no longer my film, it starts to be your film, You recognize the people, you know them, and you don't even know who directed the picture. PlayTime is nobody. — Jacques Tati

Even now dread still struck her down sometimes if she found herself counting on things being fine — Barbara Kingsolver

I think my body knew before my mind did. Or maybe I just refused to listen to what I knew. — Jackie French

Jacques Tati is the great philosophical tinkerer of comedy, taking meticulous care to arrange his films so that they unfold in a series of revelations and effortless delights. — Roger Ebert

Every moment is a new beginning. — Elie Wiesel

At the end of the parapet, a long black coat lay neatly folded on the wall. At the other end stood my sister and her lover. Tati's arms were wound around Sorrow's neck, her body pressed close to his, as if she would melt into him. His hands were enlaced in my sister's long hair as he strained her slight form against him, white on black. Their eyes were closed; their lips clung; they were lost in each other. It was beautiful and powerful. It was impossible. — Juliet Marillier

Knock the bullshit off. Love her like crazy, endlessly, stripped of reserve and preservation. Be out of our fucking minds with love, lust and longing. Belonging. Knock on the door of uncertainty and bounce in anticipation of not knowing what resides behind it. Love whatever comes our way because it's part of us. Love every ugly word and beautiful sigh. — Pella Grace

I've played some good villains, in the last few years. I'm good where I'm at. But it is fun playing villains, for sure. — Donal Logue

When we're alive, life consumes us. But when we die, all of the color and the motion is gone so quickly, it's as though it can no longer stand to be wasted on us. — Lauren DeStefano

The dream of a writer is to be surprised by his characters. All of a sudden, they are living their own lives; they are not prisoners anymore ... Tati taught me how to observe, how to sit in a cafe in Paris and to look at the passersby and to guess what their story is, even a little moment of their story ... — Jean-Claude Carriere

Is it shocking that it's very difficult for a news organization to do news in America now? It's not shocking because we're a culture that doesn't want news. We want entertainment. We want info-tainment. That's why CNN is having problems. — Oprah Winfrey

Aren't eccentricities fairly common among overachievers. — John Irving

Why do they need you on Molokai?"
"I'm not at liberty to say."
"'Not at liberty to say.' They should put that on your grave. 'Here lies Roberta Griswold. Whether or not she rests in peace, we're not at liberty to say. — Neal Shusterman

Like Godard, Tati is also remarkably appreciative of the odd beauty that can be revealed in the shapes, patterns and colors created by the technology of planned obsolescence. — Vincent Canby

I knew that we'd never get there. I knew this, in the same way I knew Tati would never be a teacher, and that Benny would be the end of me. Life's about confirming what we already know. About making sure. — Nami Mun

I can't summarize my favorite movie, Jacques Tati's 'Play Time.' You just have to see it. — Rick Perlstein

I should like to make films that are not lowering to the spirit. A new building can be very harrowing, I should like to give people a chance to whistle. — Jacques Tati