Jacques Audiard Quotes

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

  Jacques Audiard

  Heroic, Can 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.

  Jacques Audiard

  Naked, Actors, 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.

  Jacques Audiard

  Genre Is, Use, Bigs

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• When things aren't working out, screenwriters 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.

  Jacques Audiard

  Writing, Work Out, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  Jacques Audiard

  Jobs, Character, Essence

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

  Jacques Audiard

  Faces, Made

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

  Jacques Audiard

  Ipads, Cinema, World

  Interview With Jason Solomons, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2009.

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• Something that I tell myself every morning when I wake up is like: "Think it over, take the time to think it over." I don't like spontaneity, there you go. I'm wary of it.

  Jacques Audiard

  Morning, Thinking, Wake Up

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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 during the Occupation?' We discovered it was not the story they were telling us.

  Jacques Audiard

  Boys, People, Parent

  "All that glisters..." by Peter Lennon, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2002.

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

  Jacques Audiard

  Beautiful, Subjective

  "Love For Outsiders; Jacques Audiard On The Romantic Thriller 'Read My Lips'". Interview with Andrea Meyer, www.indiewire.com. July 09, 2002.

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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.

  Jacques Audiard

  Believe, Cinema, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 2012.

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• I think that cinema has always progressed through exchanges.

  Jacques Audiard

  Thinking, Cinema

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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

  Jacques Audiard

  Dream, Film, Abstract

  Interview With Jason Solomons, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2009.

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• Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.

  Jacques Audiard

  Cinema, Streets

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• 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.

  Jacques Audiard

  Writing, Work Out, Trying

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 15, 2012.

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• The so-called "remake" is simply a commercial formulation of a much deeper exchange which accounts for the way cinema is what it is.

  Jacques Audiard

  Cinema, Way, Remakes

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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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.

  Jacques Audiard

  Art, Cinema, Literature

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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.

  Jacques Audiard

  Moving, Nuts, Chance

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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 between the fiction and the viewer. You force the spectator to wonder about his actions.

  Jacques Audiard

  Character, Thinking, Interesting

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• An archetypal gangster is always at a remove. We can't get into his mindset.

  Jacques Audiard

  Mindset, Gangsters, Remove

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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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.

  Jacques Audiard

  Father, Writing, Kids

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

  Jacques Audiard

  Thinking, Easy, Inhumane

  Interview with Kyle Buchanan, movieline.com. February 18, 2010.

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

  Jacques Audiard

  Reality, Looks, Bigs

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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.

  Jacques Audiard

  Art, Children, Father

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

  Jacques Audiard

  Thinking, Roots, Monsters

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