All Jacques Audiard Quotes
- Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street. Cinema
- 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… Any
- 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… Continue
- 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… Audience
- 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… Actor
- 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… All
- The most heroic thing you can do is tell someone that you love them. Funny
- The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them. All
- The cinema that interests me departs from realism. Cinema
- If you look at American studios, the big productions have nothing to do with reality. American
- 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. Audience
- Do we root for Michael Corleone in the 'Godfather' films? I think so, even if he is a monster. Corleone
- 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.… Art
- 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… Character
- 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… Added
- When someone is punched in the face, you find out what they are made of. Face
- In movies, it's so easy to have this 'boom,' to kill, and I think that's inhumane. Boom
- Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream. Abstract
- Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world. Cinema
- Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful. Beautiful
- 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 think… Action
- I was the little French boy who grew up hearing people talk of De Gaulle and the Resistance. France against the Nazis! Then when that… Ask