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French Quotes by Jean-Jacques Annaud
- My way of remaining French was the financing scheme I used for Quest for Fire, with Fox funds, since it started as a 100% American…
- When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.
- When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris.
- When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him.…
- The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in…
- The world distribution of French movies is a laughing matter. That is a fact.
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- I remember when Lindbergh arrived in Paris, I was one of the first persons to know about his landing, because as the… — Josephine Baker
- There is a certain dignity to being French. — Brigitte Bardot
- 'Escargot' is French for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm'. — Dave Barry
- As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The… — Mario Batali
- After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie. — Emmanuelle Beart
- At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in… — Kate Beckinsale
- In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal. — Jose Bergamin
- Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion. — Ambrose Bierce
- I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women. — Juliette Binoche
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