Jean-Jacques Annaud Quotes

French - Director | October 1, 1943 -

The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

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To do the writing, I have to have time to do research.

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TimeResearchWriting

I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.

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WorkI CanMoviesPaintWhereJust

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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StylePersonalityFireAmericanWay

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

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MistakeThinkLanguageLiterature

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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The financing of my films has always been international.

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AlwaysBeenInternationalFilms

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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TodayArtWorldImpossibleCinema

When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris.

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When you create a movie, you create something in your image.

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YouCreateImageSomethingYour

When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation.

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PlaceParisCreationMatterWhatever

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 These are outdated concepts, totally out of touch with today's realities.

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TodayFootballTeamLiteratureRadio

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