Annaud Jean Jacques Quotes & Sayings

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 These are outdated concepts, totally out of touch with today's realities.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

It is easy to be humble when a greater is preferred; but when an inferior is lifted high above our heads, how can we bear it? — Constance Fenimore Woolson

I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can. — Jean-Jacques Annaud

To do the writing, I have to have time to do research. — 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 production. The film was not in French and yet was French in style, reflecting my personality. — Jean-Jacques Annaud

If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know when they go see a movie that it is fiction. — Jean-Jacques Annaud

As Rafe watched the hovercopter circle back, I saw that his aqua eyes had a golden sheen, like sunlight reflecting off the surface of a lake, I couldn't move, couldn't breathe. "Your eyes . . . — Kat Falls

Happiness comes from living in the moment, this moment, now, right here. If you are in obscure states of mind, you won't see what this moment is. You won't realize its beauty. — Frederick Lenz

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 4% of the world's total. — Jean-Jacques Annaud

The world distribution of French movies is a laughing matter. That is a fact. — Jean-Jacques Annaud

Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end, and the Lord of life holds all who die and all who mourn. — George W. Bush

Original sin is the proclivity to say "my will be done" instead of "thy will be done." — Peter Kreeft

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. — Jean-Jacques Annaud

When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris. — Jean-Jacques Annaud

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. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation. — Jean-Jacques Annaud

America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture. — Jean-Jacques Annaud

My mind is a chest of drawers. When I wish to deal with a subject, I shut all the drawers but the one in which the subject is to be found. When I am wearied, I shut all the drawers and go to sleep. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature. — Jean-Jacques Annaud

When you create a movie, you create something in your image. — Jean-Jacques Annaud

War scenes are less difficult than love scenes. — Jean-Jacques Annaud

The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second. — Jean-Jacques Annaud

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. — Jean-Jacques Annaud

British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained. — Jean-Jacques Annaud

The financing of my films has always been international. — Jean-Jacques Annaud

My priorities are: I need to be good; I need to be well within for my children to be well within; and then the creative process flows, organically and smoothly. I'm not looking to experience what I went through in the 'Livin' La Vida Loca' days again. — Ricky Martin

Her great-great-great-great-great grandmother had been burned as a witch. — John Steinbeck

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 scope. — Jean-Jacques Annaud