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“There is a broad cultural current that conveys the idea that a film is like a football team, it represents a nation, it is illustrated literature, filmed radio. These are outdated concepts, totally out of touch with today's realities.” quote by Jean-Jacques Annaud — Download Open 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 illustrated literature, filmed radio. These are outdated concepts, totally out of touch with today's realities.”

Jean-Jacques Annaud

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I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.

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The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.

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When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris.

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America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture.

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My way of remaining French was the financing scheme I used for Quest for Fire, with Fox funds, since it started as a 100%…

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The financing of my films has always been international.

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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…

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I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.

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The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national…

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If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know when they go see a…

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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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