Top 28 Annaud Jean Jacques Quotes
#2. 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 These are outdated concepts, totally out of touch with today's realities.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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris.
Jean-Jacques Annaud
#6. Ebola has arrived in New York City. And I say, 'if it can make it there ... it can make it anywhere!'
Bill Maher
#7. 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
#8. The attitude is in my personality. It's going to come out in the songs no matter what. If you're pushing the vocal constantly at 10, there's no room for any dynamics. There's no room for any variation in tone. There's no room for anything.
Mike Ness
#9. There are geniuses in trade as well as in war, or the state, or letters; and the reason why this or that man is fortunate is not to be told. It lies in the man: that is all anybody can tell you about it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#11. But if a human was to avoid all life-threatening diseases and infections and accidents, he - or she - should live to be a hundred and fifteen.
Jennifer Niven
#13. British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained.
Jean-Jacques Annaud
#14. The world distribution of French movies is a laughing matter. That is a fact.
Jean-Jacques Annaud
#15. Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter
#16. As amazing as you look in that tux, I haven't been able to stop thinking about seeing you out of it.
Robin Bielman
#17. The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.
Jean-Jacques Annaud
#18. America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture.
Jean-Jacques Annaud
#19. When two men step into the ring, one and only one deserves to win. When you step into the ring, you gotta know you deserve to win. You gotta know destiny owes you victory , cause you trained harder than your opponent. You sparred harder. You ran farther.
Cus D'Amato
#20. Who knows what goes on in the mind of a cat?
Julie Kagawa
#21. 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
#23. 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
#24. I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.
Jean-Jacques Annaud
#26. 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
#27. 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
