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

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

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

- Jacques Audiard

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

- Jacques Audiard

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…

- Jacques Audiard

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 do…

- Jacques Audiard

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…

- Jacques Audiard

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…

- Jacques Audiard

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

- Jacques Audiard