I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans. — Jean-Jacques Annaud Copy Share Image
British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained. — Jean-Jacques Annaud Copy Share Image
The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second. — Jean-Jacques Annaud Copy Share Image
When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris. — Jean-Jacques Annaud Copy Share Image
America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture. — Jean-Jacques Annaud Copy Share Image
When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for… — Jean-Jacques Annaud Copy Share Image
My way of remaining French was the financing scheme I used for Quest for Fire, with Fox funds, since it started as a 100%… — Jean-Jacques Annaud Copy Share Image
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… — Jean-Jacques Annaud Copy Share Image
I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature. — Jean-Jacques Annaud Copy Share Image
The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national… — Jean-Jacques Annaud Copy Share Image
If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know when they go see a… — Jean-Jacques Annaud Copy Share Image
I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and… — Jean-Jacques Annaud Copy Share Image
There is a broad cultural current that conveys the idea that a film is like a football team, it represents a nation, it is… — Jean-Jacques Annaud Copy Share Image
The world distribution of French movies is a laughing matter. That is a fact. — Jean-Jacques Annaud Copy Share Image
