"I had to choose between American and British……" — Jean-Jacques Annaud
"I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans."
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19 Quotes by Jean-Jacques Annaud
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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 art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.
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When you create a movie, you create something in your image.
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To do the writing, I have to have time to do research.
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I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.
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My way of remaining French was the financing scheme I used for Quest for Fire, with Fox funds, since it…
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When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language.…
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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,…
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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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When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso,…
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There is a broad cultural current that conveys the idea that a film is like a football team, it represents…
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