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Jean-Jacques Annaud

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The gospel according to Jean Jacques.
THOMAS CARLYLE The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.
ISADORA DUNCAN Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films ...
ROGER CORMAN I shall not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau - If birds confabulate or no
WILLIAM COWPER I made my last motion picture in March 1965 for Magna Pictures. 'Harlow,' based on the life ...
GINGER ROGERS I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.
WILLEM DE KOONING Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it. -Jea...
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
BRIAN JACQUES When someone else's safety and acceptance in society is on the line, your personal discomfort comes ...
COURTNEY MILAN Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world h...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ To me, cinema is not a movie or a TV screen, and it's not a seat in a building versus one in you...
TED SARANDOS I began my career creating art for an animated feature film, and it has been a life-long dream to te...
THOMAS KINKADE Because it's visual art, a lot of it comes from childhood experience but then a lot comes from the v...
DAMIEN HIRST If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know wh...
JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained.
JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to...
JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD War scenes are less difficult than love scenes.
JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD The world distribution of French movies is a laughing matter. That is a fact.
JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD There is a broad cultural current that conveys the idea that a film is like a football team, it repr...
JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD When you create a movie, you create something in your image.
JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of Fr...
JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD The financing of my films has always been international.
JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the l...
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 I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.
JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global cu...
JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be reg...
JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD My way of remaining French was the financing scheme I used for Quest for Fire, with Fox funds, since...
JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD To do the writing, I have to have time to do research.
JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Pica...
JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at ...
JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up t...
FRANK STELLA Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor.
RICHARD DONNER Jean-Luc Godard said that cinema is the truth 24 frames a second. I think cinema is lies 24 frames a...
STANLEY DONEN Since 'concepts' are closely bound up with language, concept art is a kind of art of which t...
HENRY FLYNT To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE But the very question of whether photography is or is not an art is essentially a misleading one. Al...
SUSAN SONTAG The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of rela...
HANS HOFMANN Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie pro...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential i...
OCTAVIO PAZ Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
SALMAN RUSHDIE Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.
MARC RIBOUD The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in w...
WALTER GROPIUS The art of communication is the language of leadership.
JAMES C. HUMES The art of communication is the language of leadership.
JAMES HUMES However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacqu...
SIMON MAINWARING I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses.
RICHARD DONNER The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.
ELIA KAZAN I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.
RAY BRADBURY In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is...
JACQUES LACAN Why is it better to love than to be loved? It is surer.
SACHA GUITRY I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.
SACHA GUITRY The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
SACHA GUITRY An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren...
SACHA GUITRY Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
SACHA GUITRY The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place.
SACHA GUITRY You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.
SACHA GUITRY The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile.
SACHA GUITRY When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are...
FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom s...
FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical nov...
FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-s...
CHRIS MARKER There's one thing which I hate about color films... people who use up a lot of their despairing ...
CLAUDE CHABROL When we were making the movie, winning awards for it wasn't the point at all. We didn't even...
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explica...
BRUNO DUMONT Making pizza is a great job. All that kneading the dough - everything to do with cooking is wonderfu...
CLAIRE DENIS There is no god. I am an atheist. It is up to us to become God. We need to be elevated, to become sa...
BRUNO DUMONT To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never ...
CLAUDE CHABROL To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it&#...
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback.
ALAIN RESNAIS Well, a special screening was set up for government officials, so they didn't have to see the ex...
MATHIEU KASSOVITZ I had flops, I had success.
AGNES VARDA I didn't foresee my career. Things happen.
CLAIRE DENIS I can't walk in a toy store in a foreign country without seeing a kid with a minion backpack.
PIERRE COFFIN How can you tell a story with one frame that, by its simplicity, manages to tell a story, a gag that...
PIERRE COFFIN The problem is that to be a producer, one must be a gambler, and the greatest French producers were ...
MARCEL CARNE Matching character and actor is what a good director does.
BRUNO DUMONT Like anywhere, we had to make people understand that we were there with good intentions, and that we...
MATHIEU KASSOVITZ I think a film noir demands a beginning and an end.
CLAIRE DENIS Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupid...
CLAUDE CHABROL My mother's father was from Brazil - a painter, and not a famous one - and was always broke. But...
CLAIRE DENIS I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Bro...
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings.
MARCEL CARNE 'Captain America' I love, and that would be great, but c'mon, a Frenchman doing 'Cap...
LOUIS LETERRIER I am unusual for a Frenchman - I have absolutely nothing against the United States.
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director.
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director....
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS When you do a first movie, you're contractually supposed to do the second one and then you don&#...
LOUIS LETERRIER The cinema should be human and be part of people's lives; it should focus on ordinary existences...
CLAIRE DENIS A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.
CLAUDE CHABROL 'Iron Man' was this fun, poppy thing bound to make a zillion dollars. And we were the other ...
LOUIS LETERRIER The French are very individualistic.
ERIC ROHMER I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.
CLAUDE CHABROL I am the eldest child; it's lonely at the top.
CLAIRE DENIS You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If yo...
LOUIS MALLE The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be prop...
FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT When I was 16, I felt very relieved to discover cinema. It was like an island where I could see life...
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JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
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JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
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JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not ex...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; fr...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The strongest is never strong enough always to be master, unless he transforms strength into right, ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU They say that Caliph Omar, when consulted about what had to be done with the library of Alexandria, ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the sec...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely know...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Cities are the abyss of the human species
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naive eno...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Truth is no road to fortune
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who h...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU As soon as public service ceases to be the chief business of the citizens, and they would rather ser...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Our greatest evil flows from ourselves
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows
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