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.
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
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
Do we root for Michael Corleone in the 'Godfather' films? I think so, even if he is a monster. - Jacques Audiard
Do we root for Michael Corleone in the 'Godfather' films? I think so, even if he is a monster.
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
The so-called "remake" is simply a commercial formulation of a much deeper exchange which accounts for the way cinema is what it is.
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
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.
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
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…
Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street. - Jacques Audiard
Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.
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
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…
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
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…
Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful. - Jacques Audiard
Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.
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