Alain Delon Quotes

...What I have to say is very simple and very short: [Jean-Pierre Melville]'s the greatest director I've had the good fortune, pleasure and honor to work with up to this point. It'd take too long to explain. He's wonderful. He knows more about cinema than anyone. He's the greatest director I know, the greatest cameraman, the best at framing and lighting, the best at everything. He's a living encyclopedia of cinema.

You knew she was the real deal from the moment she started talking. Her words were powerful. She had that certain way about her that sucked you in. It was beyond your better logic. You hated the way she made you feel. You mistook it for helplessness; lack of control. But truth was that she aspired nothing else but harmony and serenity. She was only guilty of raw magnetism.

The Old Cinema I like the old cinema we leave in the evening you remember that French actress she had a certain je ne sais quoi until the very FIN the boy you were all in love with and called him Alain Delon went bald the soonest a wrinkled knee with a thin garland of grey curls a Julius Caesar of small-town business the empire of windows and doors kiss me good night my Selene your Endymion has been long yawning

In Antonioni’s film L’Eclisse, the luminous Monica Vitti visits the Rome stock exchange, where her fiancé, played by Alain Delon, works. Delon points out a fat man who has just lost 50 million lire. Intrigued, she follows the man. He orders a drink at a bar, barely touches it, then goes to a café, where he orders an acqua minerale, which he again barely touches. He is writing something on a piece of paper, and leaves it on the table. We imagine that it must be a set of furious, melancholy figures. Vitti approaches the table, and sees that it is a drawing of a flower …

You knew she was the real deal from the moment she started talking. Her words were powerful. She had that certain way about her that sucked you in. It was beyond your better logic. You hated the way she made you feel. You mistook it for helplessness; lack of control. But truth was that she aspired nothing else but authenticity. She was only guilty of raw magnetism.

At Woodland, in walked David Geffen, Anjelica Huston, maybe Dustin Hoffman, tennis shoes under his arm. “Did I miss the game?” Alain Delon … Mengers and Evans at the pool, drinking a bottle of white wine cellar–plucked for the occasion: “Now really, Sue … Do you get white wine at Columbia?” Giggling: “You and I have never agreed on any kind of material. And so far you’ve been right.” Now down to casting. “I think of De Niro.…

You knew she was the real deal from the moment she started talking. Her words were powerful. She had that certain way about her that sucked you in. It was beyond your better logic. You hated the way she made you feel. You mistook it for helplessness; lack of control. But truth was that she aspired nothing else but harmony and serenity. She was only guilty of raw magnetism.