The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them. Jacques Audiard Read Quote
I don’t feel comfortable with violence, and I’m not sure that I film violent scenes properly, and it’s something I’m reticent to do, and yet violence is sort of in all of my films. Jacques Audiard Read Quote
Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn’t beautiful, but she was more than beautiful. Jacques Audiard Read Quote
It’s truly gratifying to see my films reach beyond a familiar public, to get a chance to move new audiences. It’s nuts. It’s extraordinary. Jacques Audiard Read Quote
In movies, it’s so easy to have this ‘boom,’ to kill, and I think that’s inhumane. Jacques Audiard Read Quote
I really believe the form of the film must be in the scenario; cinema is not just added value to the scripting. I believe in it as a totality. Jacques Audiard Read Quote
Cool? Am I cool? I don’t know, but I hope my characters are cool, in the sense of iconic. That’s my job, at its very essence. Jacques Audiard Read Quote
