Audiard Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things ... They could have suddenly continued their confessions aloud, without ceasing to understand each other.

Emile Zola

#4. In movies, it's so easy to have this 'boom,' to kill, and I think that's inhumane.

Jacques Audiard

#5. Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

Mark Twain

#6. I don't like spontaneity; there you go. I'm wary of it.

Jacques Audiard

#7. When someone is punched in the face, you find out what they are made of.

Jacques Audiard

#8. 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

#9. The cinema that interests me departs from realism.

Jacques Audiard

#10. 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

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

Jacques Audiard

#12. It's just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we're in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it.

Joyce Meyer

#13. I think that cinema has always progressed through exchanges.

Jacques Audiard

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. So I did what I do best. I stared at her blankly and acted dumb.

Rick Riordan

#17. Wait a second," I said. "If we're worried about an attack, why not just blow up the entrance? Seal the tunnel?" "Great idea!" Grover said. "I'll get the dynamite!

Rick Riordan

#18. When the baby is older take the diapers off, my girl is gonna do the Slop.

Chubby Checker

#19. 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

#20. Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.

Jacques Audiard

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

Jacques Audiard

#22. 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

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

Jacques Audiard

#24. 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

#25. Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world.

Jacques Audiard

#26. 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

#27. My personal feeling is that audiences are crying out for stories they can invest in and feel. I see a lot of big movies that leave me feeling rather numb.

Emily Blunt

#28. If you look at American studios, the big productions have nothing to do with reality.

Jacques Audiard

#29. 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

#30. Nowadays, people are so jeezled up. If they took some chamomile tea and spent more time rocking on the porch in the evening listening to the liquid song of the hermit thrush, they might enjoy life more.

Tasha Tudor

#31. 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

#32. Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream.

Jacques Audiard

#33. I miss him in so many ways, but right now I miss him in the way you always miss someone when you're single among a room full of couples.

Emily Giffin

#34. 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

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

Jacques Audiard