Jacques Audiard Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“The cinema that interests me departs from realism.”

“The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them.”

“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.”