Jean Marais in Beauty and the Beast (1946, dir. Jean Cocteau) (via) “My method is simple: not to aim at poetry. That must come of its own accord. The mere whispered mention of its name frightens it away. I shall try to build a table. It will be up to you then to eat at it, to examine it or to chop it up for firewood.” -Cocteau, Beauty and the Beast: Diary of a Film (1947)

Jean Marais in Beauty and the Beast (1946, dir. Jean Cocteau) (via)

“My method is simple: not to aim at poetry. That must come of its own accord. The mere whispered mention of its name frightens it away. I shall try to build a table. It will be up to you then to eat at it, to examine it or to chop it up for firewood.”

-Cocteau, Beauty and the Beast: Diary of a Film (1947)