Rene Quotes

(on Rene Clair) A real master: he invented his own Paris, which is better than recording it.

I guess if you see both of the movies (Flags of Our Fathers (2006) and Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)) together, they sum up as an antiwar film. Whether it`s about territory or religion, war is horrifyingly and depressingly archaic. But I didn`t set out to make a war movie. I cared about those three fellows - Bradley, Hayes and Gagnon (John H. Bradley, Ira H. Hayes, `René A. Gagnon`) - the headliners on that war-bond circus. The young men were taken off the front lines, wined and dined, introduced to movie stars. But it felt wrong to them.

I like René Descartes` theory about a ball of wax. You can change its form from solid to liquid, but it`s still the same ball of wax. With acting, you are the same person in a different form. You can only be what you know, and you only truly know yourself.

I`ve been very fortunate to have found someone who have been so incredibly caring....I don`t think anybody else would have stuck around because I had some really difficult times.... And I know he probably would wake up and say, Okay, who is she today?" I think anyone else would have said, `You know what? I am out of here because I cannot take this.` But he was there, right by my side the entire way." - on Rene Elizondo, Jr.

I`m not trying to be malicious. The only thing that Rene actually did with Velvet Rope is the production of the opening of the show.

On her son Rene: Oh my God, when he`s 20 years old what`s going to happen to me? I`m gonna marry him.

He`s the only guy who intimidates me. (About her son, René-Charles coming to see her Las Vegas show for the first time.) (People Magazine, "The Power of Love" by Marisa Laudadio & Karen S. Schneider - 3 December 2007)