Olivier Assayas
Birthday:
25 January 1955, Paris, France
Olivier Assayas was born on January 25, 1955 in Paris, France. He is a writer and director, known for Paris, je t'aime (2006), Personal Shopper (2016) and Clouds of Sils Maria (2014).
I like the adventure of making films. And the adventure of making films has to do with the capacity you have of listening to your guts.
I like the adventure of making films. And the adventure of making films has to do with the capacity you have of listening to your guts.
Ultimately, what I am most interested in is what contradicts what I have written because that's exactly where real life moves into the film.
Ultimately, what I am most interested in is what contradicts what I have written because that's exactly where real life moves into the film.
I think that it's important to understand, intuitively understand, what you are doing. But when you are doing it you must follow instinct. T...Show more »
I think that it's important to understand, intuitively understand, what you are doing. But when you are doing it you must follow instinct. There has to be a certain level of risk, creating images, characters, emotions, it involves something a little brutal. You must be prepared to go in areas where you lose control. Show less «
When I started making films, the people I was hanging out with, the scene in Paris at the time was very much musicians. So once in a while i...Show more »
When I started making films, the people I was hanging out with, the scene in Paris at the time was very much musicians. So once in a while it pops up and I use it as a background. Because there are moments in life when you just have to say hello to your old friends. Show less «
Clouds of Sils Maria (2014) deals with an actress, who has to navigate through those different layers of reality - it is pretty much a portr...Show more »
Clouds of Sils Maria (2014) deals with an actress, who has to navigate through those different layers of reality - it is pretty much a portrait of Juliette Binoche, as she is today, not a movie with Binoche, but a movie about her. She really brings a lot of herself into this character, so it has fairly deep roots. Show less «
[on director Michael Mann] It's miraculous to find such a great stylist in contemporary American cinema. ["La cinémathèque imaginaire", Ci...Show more »
[on director Michael Mann] It's miraculous to find such a great stylist in contemporary American cinema. ["La cinémathèque imaginaire", Cine-regards] Show less «
I am a fan of Michael Mann; he is one of the most inspired stylists in American cinema today, but it was all there from the start. In Thief ...Show more »
I am a fan of Michael Mann; he is one of the most inspired stylists in American cinema today, but it was all there from the start. In Thief (1981), his first feature, you have echoes of Jean-Pierre Melville (it goes full circle), a sharp eye for realism, but also profound human characters with precisely drawn relationships, and great acting. Mann's fascination with a geometrical modernity, even if it is always mediated by genre filmmaking, is genuinely reminiscent of Michelangelo Antonioni - explicitly so in the last scenes of Heat (1995). [Criterion Coll., 2015] Show less «
Movies are expressions of our imagination. They are expressions of our conscious and of our subconscious. I think that movies can be analyze...Show more »
Movies are expressions of our imagination. They are expressions of our conscious and of our subconscious. I think that movies can be analyzed the way dreams are analyzed. Show less «
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