Jean Renoir

To the question, ‘Is the cinema an art?’ my answer is, ‘what does it matter?’. . . You can make films or you can cultivate a garden. Both have as much claim to being called an art as a poem by Verlaine or a painting by Delacroix… Art is ‘making. ’ The art of poetry is the art of making poetry. The art of love is the art of making love. . . My father never talked to me about art. He could not bear the word.