Quotes by Jacques Audiard

About Jacques Audiard:

Jacques Audiard is a French film director and screenwriter; and the son of Michel Audiard, also a notable screenwriter and film director.
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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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I think 'Scarface' is a great film, but if you have a character like Tony Montana, you don't identify with him at all. I think it's very interesting instead to identify yourself with a character you don't like all the time. You can create a tension b...

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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The cinema that interests me departs from realism.

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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...

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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Author Bio

  • NameJacques Audiard
  • DescriptionFrench film director and screenwriter
  • BornApril 30, 1952
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionScreenwriter; Film Director