Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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's Popular Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

- 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