When things aren’t working out, we have a tendency to say, ‘Go do other things,’ but you shouldn’t do other things. You need to stay at your desk and continue to try to write. You need to insist on it. Jacques Audiard Read Quote
When you’re a kid and your father is an engineer, he goes to the office. I saw my father get up and go to the office in the house and write. But I don’t see any similarities. Jacques Audiard Read Quote
For me, there was no great myth around the movies when I was a young child. My father was very simple about the whole thing. He did not consider cinema an art. Cinema was entertainment. Literature and music were art. Jacques Audiard Read Quote
What interests me about genre is that the public connects immediately with it, it has certain rules, certain codes the audience recognizes. I can use that to create something very big. Jacques Audiard Read Quote
I think ‘Scarface’ is a great film, but if you have a character like Tony Montana, you don’t identify with him at all. I think it’s very interesting instead to identify yourself with a character you don’t like all the time. You can create a tension between the fiction and the viewer. You force the spectator to wonder about his actions. Jacques Audiard Read Quote
I was the little French boy who grew up hearing people talk of De Gaulle and the Resistance. France against the Nazis! Then when that boy grew up, he began to uncover things. We began to legitimately ask the question, ‘What exactly did our parents do during the Occupation?’ We discovered it was not the story they were telling us. Jacques Audiard Read Quote
Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street. Jacques Audiard Read Quote
If you look at American studios, the big productions have nothing to do with reality. Jacques Audiard Read Quote
