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Jean-Jacques Annaud [1943-0] French

Rank: 109
Director, Film director

Jean-Jacques Annaud is a French film director, screenwriter and producer, best known for directing Quest for Fire, The Name of the Rose, The Lover, and Seven Years in Tibet.

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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 These are outdated concepts, totally out of touch with today's realities.		101
To do the writing, I have to have time to do research.		102
America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture.	Movies	103
War scenes are less difficult than love scenes.		104
I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.		105
The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.		106
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.		107
I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.		108
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.		109
The financing of my films has always been international.		110
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.		111
When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris.		112
When you create a movie, you create something in your image.		113
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.		114
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.		115
The world distribution of French movies is a laughing matter. That is a fact.		116
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.		117
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.		118
British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained.		119

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