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.
When you create a movie, you create something in your image. - Jean-Jacques Annaud
When you create a movie, you create something in your image.
- Jean-Jacques Annaud
I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature. - Jean-Jacques Annaud
I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.
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, fi… - Jean-Jacques Annaud
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, fi…
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
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.
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
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.
War scenes are less difficult than love scenes. - Jean-Jacques Annaud
War scenes are less difficult than love scenes.
When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris. - Jean-Jacques Annaud
When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris.
The world distribution of French movies is a laughing matter. That is a fact. - Jean-Jacques Annaud
The world distribution of French movies is a laughing matter. That is a fact.
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 tot… - Jean-Jacques Annaud
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 tot…
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