The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them. — Jacques Audiard Copy Share Image
For me, there was no great myth around the movies when I was a young child. My father was very simple about the whole thing. He did not consider cinema an art. Cinema was entertainment. Literature and music were art. — Jacques Audiard Copy Share Image
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. — Jacques Audiard Copy Share Image
Something that I tell myself every morning when I wake up is like: "Think it over, take the time to think it over." I… — Jacques Audiard Copy Share Image
If you look at American studios, the big productions have nothing to do with reality. — Jacques Audiard Copy Share Image
An archetypal gangster is always at a remove. We can't get into his mindset. — Jacques Audiard Copy Share Image
I think 'Scarface' is a great film, but if you have a character like Tony Montana, you don't identify with him at all. I… — Jacques Audiard Copy Share Image
Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street. — Jacques Audiard Copy Share Image
Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful. — Jacques Audiard Copy Share Image
When you're a kid and your father is an engineer, he goes to the office. I saw my father get up and go to… — Jacques Audiard Copy Share Image
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… — Jacques Audiard Copy Share Image
