Audiard Quotes & Sayings

The cinema that interests me departs from realism. — Jacques Audiard

Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street. — Jacques Audiard

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 at your desk and continue to try to write. You need to insist on it. — Jacques Audiard

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 that to create something very big. — Jacques Audiard

Leviter smiles. There is no such thing as coincidence, my dear Jax. Only immaculate planning. — Ann Aguirre

Cletus sneered. "You are the opposite of boastful, and your humbleness verges on infuriating." "Gee, thanks." I rolled my eyes. "Look, all I'm saying is that if a person is great at something, she shouldn't have to pretend she's not, and she shouldn't have to downplay her hard work. There's nothing wrong with humility or modesty, Jenn. But - for heaven's sake - take credit for being a badass." I — Penny Reid

I think that cinema has always progressed through exchanges. — Jacques Audiard

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 office in the house and write. But I don't see any similarities. — Jacques Audiard

The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them. — Jacques Audiard

The so-called "remake" is simply a commercial formulation of a much deeper exchange which accounts for the way cinema is what it is. — Jacques Audiard

It's funny, I started by making fake American movies, 'The Transporter' and stuff like that. I was shooting in France, but everything was in English. But then afterwards, I was looking at real French movies like the Jacques Audiard movies. — Louis Leterrier

Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream. — Jacques Audiard

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 boy grew up, he began to uncover things. We began to legitimately ask the question, 'What exactly did our parents do during the Occupation?' We discovered it was not the story they were telling us. — Jacques Audiard

I like the idea of a TV show. You take time to get to know your characters. You can introduce a lot of characters. You don't need your three-action set pieces that you usually need for movies. — Louis Leterrier

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 it's very interesting instead to identify yourself with a character you don't like all the time. You can create a tension between the fiction and the viewer. You force the spectator to wonder about his actions. — Jacques Audiard

Because they weren't just fighting for their own honor. They were also fighting for the honor of six good men who could no longer stand up for themselves. Doing right by those men wasn't a choice, it was a duty. — Laura Kaye

Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world. — Jacques Audiard

I hooked up with director Jacques Audiard for this film called 'Rust & Bone' with Marion Cotillard. I loved that experience so much I'm truly sad that it's over! — Matthias Schoenaerts

In movies, it's so easy to have this 'boom,' to kill, and I think that's inhumane. — Jacques Audiard

The most heroic thing you can do is tell someone that you love them. — Jacques Audiard

I don't like spontaneity; there you go. I'm wary of it. — Jacques Audiard

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 essence. — Jacques Audiard

Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful. — Jacques Audiard

An archetypal gangster is always at a remove. We can't get into his mindset. — Jacques Audiard

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 it as a totality. — Jacques Audiard

I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote. — Joe Strummer

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. He did not consider cinema an art. Cinema was entertainment. Literature and music were art. — Jacques Audiard

If you want to be given everything, give everything up. — Riley Murphy

I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music. — Kevin Bacon

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 violence is sort of in all of my films. — Jacques Audiard

Do we root for Michael Corleone in the 'Godfather' films? I think so, even if he is a monster. — Jacques Audiard

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. — Jacques Audiard

When someone is punched in the face, you find out what they are made of. — Jacques Audiard

If you look at American studios, the big productions have nothing to do with reality. — Jacques Audiard

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 creates excitement. — Jacques Audiard