Jules and Jim

“For my last pick, I am going to close my eyes and do a random pick. Here we go. Jules and Jim. Jules et Jim. Now... This is funny. There’s two little animals that come around our house every summer, and I’ve named them Jules and Jim.”

“Jules and Jim. I first saw this in college and it blew my mind. The narration was unlike anything I ever heard and I loved the love triangle at the heart of the film which now very much inspired actually the love triangle in Fire of Love, my last film. In Jules and Jim, there's a running scene where the three main characters run across a bridge, they race each other, and in that scene there's such exhilaration and such heart and the sense of energy.”

“Jules and Jim, my first three-way. I haven't even looked back here. I can't take all what this is like. How do you choose?”

“Jules and Jim, loved that. I met Jeanne Moreau shortly before she died in Paris. She was just smoking, and I went up and I knelt in front of her and I said, 'Jeanne, I'm a huge admirer,' and she said, 'Oh darling, I enjoy you.' I was thrilled to meet her and I think that she was so used to people saying that she would have said 'Hello my darling' to absolutely anybody.”

“Right now I'm holding Jules and Jim, which I'm taking. The first time I saw it, when she's walking with the other two guys and they're involved in a conversation amongst themselves totally ignoring her, and because she doesn't like that, she just out of nowhere jumps into the Seine. I was like, 'Oh, now I'm interested.'”

“I want to take Jules and Jim. The matrix of so many French movies.”

“Jules and Jim. See, I didn't see a movie like this until much later in life because when I was a kid you just couldn't, you didn't see these films. It was almost impossible if we had a chance to see, especially some of the foreign films or movies that were made somewhere in the '40s, they'd have to be reissued. In Baltimore it was impossible to see, so I didn't see a lot of some of the really classic movies until much later in life.”

“I'm going to take Jules and Jim because I had an interesting moment when I was making my short film Still Processing. My dad sent me all the home video footage that he'd taken of me and my brothers growing up and there's a video of me as a two or three-year-old and he's whistling a tune and I'm dancing to the tune and it sounded familiar to me. So I asked my dad, what is this tune that you're whistling? And it's the song that they sing in Jules and Jim. So it's a special film.”

“Wait a minute. Except maybe we’re throwing in one French picture, which is Jules et Jim. Truffaut, darling. Jeanne Moreau. Where is the Jeanne Moreau festival? Where is that?”