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 These are outdated concepts, totally out of touch with today's realities.
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I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.Jean-Jacques Annaud
The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.
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I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.
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My way of remaining French was the financing scheme I used for Quest for Fire, with Fox funds, since it started as a 100% American production. The film was not in French and yet was French in style, reflecting my personality.
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I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans.
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When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.
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