Jean-Jacques Annaud Quotes

War scenes are less difficult than love scenes.

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Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.

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America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture.

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I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.

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When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.

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If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know when they go see a movie that it is fiction.

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There is a broad cultural current that conveys the idea that a film is like a football team, it represents a nation, it is illustrated literature, filmed radio. These are outdated concepts, totally out of touch with today's realities.

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My way of remaining French was the financing scheme I used for Quest for Fire, with Fox funds, since it started as a 100% American production. The film was not in French and yet was French in style, reflecting my personality.

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