Top 32 Jean-jacques Annaud Quotes
#1. You don't get to tell people how to love you; you get to choose if you want to participate in the way they love.
Iyanla Vanzant
#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 These are outdated concepts, totally out of touch with today's realities.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. The true poet is a friendly man. He takes to his arms even cold and inanimate things, and rejoices in his heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#7. The best evidence of our having the truth is our walking in the truth.
Matthew Henry
#8. 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
#9. When one learns to focus energy through surrender and sensitivity, they become free, and can access the expansiveness of endless possibility.
Bryant McGill
#10. He warned that any church that ignored reality would not survive to enjoy the divine.
Dan Brown
#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. Cats don't bark and act brave when they see something small in fur or feathers, they kill it. Dogs tend to bravado. They're braggarts. In the great evolutionary drama the dog is Sergeant Bilko, the cat is Rambo.
James P. Gorman
#16. Do you know what I think?" Marcone said.
"You think we should shoot Nicodemus in the back at the first opportunity and let Michael dismember him."
"Yes."
I drew my gun. "Okay.
Jim Butcher
#17. What is this? The land of misfit models?
M. Leighton
#18. The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.
Jean-Jacques Annaud
#19. America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture.
Jean-Jacques Annaud
#20. Ulysses Club (Australia) a social club for riders over 40, whose membership is dedicated to "growing old disgracefully", or
Stella Rheingold
#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
#22. I don't want to do any more movies where I look at it and go, 'Oh, God, gross.'
Sean Young
#24. 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
#25. I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.
Jean-Jacques Annaud
#27. 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
#28. If you only value my advice when I agree with you, you don't value it at all.
John Flanagan
#29. 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
#32. We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
Charles Bukowski
