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.
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
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…
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world. - Jacques Audiard
Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world.
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