Film Quotes by Jacques Audiard

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

I think that cinema has always progressed through exchanges.

— Jacques Audiard

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

If you look at American studios, the big productions have nothing to do with reality.

— Jacques Audiard

An archetypal gangster is always at a remove. We can't get into his mindset.

— Jacques Audiard

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

I don't like spontaneity; there you go. I'm wary of it.

— Jacques Audiard

Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.

— Jacques Audiard

Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.

— Jacques Audiard

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

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

Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world.

— Jacques Audiard

I was the little French boy who grew up hearing people talk of De Gaulle and the Resistance. France against the Nazis! Then when…

— Jacques Audiard

When someone is punched in the face, you find out what they are made of.

— Jacques Audiard

If I ask my actors to bare themselves, to reveal themselves as almost naked, I have to bare myself, expose myself as well. That's…

— Jacques Audiard