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Life's greatest tragedy is not that it will someday end, but that most only live to follow directions and sometimes we end up totally lost. — Alex Gaskarth

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

In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped us step out of a recession; it gave a certain amount of speed to the economy. But that was the first step. — Giovanni Agnelli

No Christian ought to think of himself as his own master, but each should rather so think and act as though given by God to be slave to his like minded brethren (cf. I Cor. 9:19)? — Saint Basil

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

I used to be a conservative, and I watch these debates and I'm wondering, I don't think I've changed, but it's a little troubling sometimes when people are appealing to people's fears and emotion rather than trying to get them to look over the horizon for a broader perspective, and that's kind of where we are. — Jeb Bush

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

At the end, nothing will remain except the poetry of your love. — Debasish Mridha

And then, some morning in the second week, the mind wakes, comes to life again. Not in a city sense - no - but beach-wise. It begins to drift, to play, to turn over in gentle careless rolls like those lazy waves on the beach. One never knows what chance treasures these easy unconscious rollers may toss up, on the smooth white sand of the conscious mind; what perfectly rounded stone, what rare shell from the ocean floor. Perhaps a channeled whelk, a moon shell, or even an argonaut. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

There was nothing particularly intimate about the way they sat, but something about the scene made Gansey feel strange, like he'd heard an unpleasant statement and later forgotten everything about the words but the way they had made him feel. — Maggie Stiefvater

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