Jacques Audiard Quotes

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• Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.
• 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 the…
• When things aren't working out, we have a tendency to say, 'Go do other things,' but you shouldn't do other things. You need to stay…
• What interests me about genre is that the public connects immediately with it, it has certain rules, certain codes the audience recognizes. I can use…
• 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 what…
• 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…
• The most heroic thing you can do is tell someone that you love them.
• The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them.
• The cinema that interests me departs from realism.
• If you look at American studios, the big productions have nothing to do with reality.
• 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.
• Do we root for Michael Corleone in the 'Godfather' films? I think so, even if he is a monster.
• 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.…
• 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…
• 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…
• When someone is punched in the face, you find out what they are made of.
• In movies, it's so easy to have this 'boom,' to kill, and I think that's inhumane.
• Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream.
• Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world.
• Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.

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