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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature. Jean-Jacques Annaud Read Quote
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 Read Quote
There is a broad cultural current that conveys the idea that a film is like a football team, it represents a nation, it is illustrated literature, filmed radio. These are outdated concepts, totally out of touch with today’s realities. Jean-Jacques Annaud Read Quote
The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second. Jean-Jacques Annaud Read Quote
