French - Director | April 30, 1952 -
When someone is punched in the face, you find out what they are made of.
Jacques Audiard
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In movies, it's so easy to have this 'boom,' to kill, and I think that's inhumane.
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Cool? Am I cool? I don't know, but I hope my characters are cool, in the sense of iconic. That's my job, at its very essence.
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Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world.
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Do we root for Michael Corleone in the 'Godfather' films? I think so, even if he is a monster.
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Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream.
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The most heroic thing you can do is tell someone that you love them.
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I really believe the form of the film must be in the scenario; cinema is not just added value to the scripting. I believe in it as a totality.
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It's truly gratifying to see my films reach beyond a familiar public, to get a chance to move new audiences. It's nuts. It's extraordinary.
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The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them.
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I don't feel comfortable with violence, and I'm not sure that I film violent scenes properly, and it's something I'm reticent to do, and yet violence is sort of in all of my films.
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If you look at American studios, the big productions have nothing to do with reality.
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