Biographie

Orson Welles frequently cited him as the greatest film director of all time.

He had extremely long hair as a small child which was not cut at the insistence of his father, Pierre-Auguste Renoir. His hair made him look like a little girl and caused him to be teased mercilessly. Little Jean with his long hair was depicted famously in one of his father's paintings. Jean was greatly relieved to go away for school because he knew they required boys to have short hair and they would cut his.

Son of Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

Although he became an American citizen, he was buried in France following a state funeral.

Was voted the 12th-greatest director of all time by Entertainment Weekly magazine, making him the highest-rated French filmmaker on the list.

My dream is of a craftsman's cinema in which the author can express himself as directly as the painter in his paintings or the writer in his books.

The Western is always the same, which gives the director tremendous freedom.

The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience and a little love we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called man.

A director only makes one film in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.

I believe that perfection handicaps cinema.