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The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.

~Jean-Jacques Annaud

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To do the writing, I have to have time to do research.

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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 think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.

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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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The financing of my films has always been international.

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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.

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

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

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Director

Born: October 1st, 1943

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