Jean-Jacques Annaud Quotes & Sayings

“The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.”

“When you create a movie, you create something in your image.”

“America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture.”

“I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.”

“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.”

“The world distribution of French movies is a laughing matter. That is a fact.”

“To do the writing, I have to have time to do research.”

“War scenes are less difficult than love scenes.”

“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 These are outdated concepts, totally out of touch with today's realities.”

“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.”