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Jean-Jacques Annaud
French
Director
Born:
Oct 1
,
1943
Film
French
Language
Matter
Than
Today
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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.
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Personality
Fire
Style
Way
Financing
Remaining
Scheme
Since
French
Quest
Reflecting
American
Production
Used
Film
Started
Fox
Funds
I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Mistake
Language
Think
Identify
Were
According
Movie
Literature
Movies
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.
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Book
Language
French
Because
Becomes
Hit
Author
Same
Goes
Movies
International
The financing of my films has always been international.
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Films
Financing
Always
Been
International
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
Today
Art
World
Cinema
Impossible
Market
France
Total
More
Global
Make
Art Form
Than
Representing
Size
Form
Movies
When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris.
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Aim
Entire
Paris
French
Make
Shoot
American
Movies
Planet
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
Matter
Whatever
Creation
Paris
Picasso
He
Simply
Ideal
French
Him
Because
Does
His
Sell
Surrounding
Influences
Place
Spanish
Painted
Painter
Chose
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
National
Longer
French
Understand
Got
Scope
Afford
Expensive
Regional
Even
Film
America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture.
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Culture
Country
Become
National
Only
Only Country
Global
America
Movies
Capable
Producing
The world distribution of French movies is a laughing matter. That is a fact.
Jean-Jacques Annaud
World
Matter
Laughing
Distribution
Fact
French
Movies
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
You
Words
See
About
Know
Make
How
Audiences
Real
How Much
Dialogue
Go
Fiction
Movie
Much
Her
Elizabeth
Elizabeth I
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.
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Me
Other
Russians
More
Take
Had
Between
Than
American
Decide
Should
Choose
Europeans
Actor
Played
Second
British
British Actors
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