I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.
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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 total.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
When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris.
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, filmed radio. These are outdated concepts, totally out of touch with today's realities.
Jean-Jacques Annaud
When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation.
Jean-Jacques Annaud
When you create a movie, you create something in your image.
Jean-Jacques Annaud
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