- André Téchiné was born on March 13, 1943 in Valence, Tarn-et-Garonne, France. He is a writer and director, known for Wild Reeds (1994), The Witnesses (2007) and Rendez-vous (1985).
- Subtle exploration of sexuality and national identity
- An intimist flavor in aesthetic choices
- Lyrical examination of human relations in a sensitive but unsentimental way
- Influence of Roland Barthes, Bertolt Brecht, Ingmar Bergman, William Faulkner and the cinematic French New Wave
- Wrote the lyrics of "On se voit se voir", sung by Marie France in "Barocco", and of "Prends moi", sung by the same artist in "Les Innocents". Both songs were composed by Philippe Sarde.
- He was film critic in "Les Cahiers du Cinéma" between 1964 and 1968.
- Graduated from L'IDHEC (La Fémis).
- Member of jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1999.
- He directed in 1971 his second short "The Banquet".
- [on his early encounter with cinema] Films were my only opening to the world. They were my only possibility of escaping my family environment and my boarding school. It was probably dangerous because, through movies, I learned how the world works and how human relations work. But it was magical, and I was determined to follow the thread of that magic.
- All my films have the same themes, albeit in different forms. My evolution is in the way I excavate the same themes. I suppose there's some autobiography, but it's totally deformed. It's fiction that interests me. But for this fiction to work, it is fed by distant experiences that return to the surface.
- What I find fascinating about adolescence is the element of transition, that moment of metamorphosis where the juvenile's identity as a child is lost, but where his/her identity as an adult is also yet to develop.
- I never know how each film will end. When I'm filming, I shoot each scene as if it were a short film. It's only when I edit that I worry about the narrative. My objective is to tell a story, but that's the final thing I do.
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