When you create a movie, you create something in your image.

- 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.

- Jean-Jacques Annaud

War scenes are less difficult than love scenes.

- 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

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

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

The world distribution of French movies is a laughing matter. That is a fact.

- Jean-Jacques Annaud

When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris.

- 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…

- Jean-Jacques Annaud