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Jean Jacques Annaud (Film Director)

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

— Jean Jacques Annaud art

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

— Jean Jacques Annaud age

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

— Jean Jacques Annaud culture

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

— Jean Jacques Annaud pain

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 fiction

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

— Jean Jacques Annaud world

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

— Jean Jacques Annaud writing

War scenes are less difficult than love scenes.

— Jean Jacques Annaud love

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 These are outdated concepts, totally out of touch with today's realities.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

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 art

British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained.

— Jean Jacques Annaud rain

I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.

— Jean Jacques Annaud literature

The financing of my films has always been international.

— Jean Jacques Annaud film

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 film

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 language

When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris.

— Jean Jacques Annaud movies

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 play

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 art

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 pain

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