Top 23 Quotes by Jacques Audiard

About Jacques Audiard

These are some quotes by French author Jacques Audiard Director, who was born on April 30, 1952.

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.

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

The cinema that interests me departs from realism.

The cinema that interests me departs from realism.

Jacques Audiard

Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.

Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.

Jacques Audiard

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.

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

Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.

Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.

Jacques Audiard

I don't like spontaneity; there you go. I'm wary of it.

I don't like spontaneity; there you go. I'm wary of it.

Jacques Audiard

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.

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

When someone is punched in the face, you find out what they are made of.

When someone is punched in the face, you find out what they are made of.

Jacques Audiard

If I ask my actors to bare themselves, to reveal themselves as almost naked, I have to bare myself, expose myself as well. That's what creates excitement.

If I ask my actors to bare themselves, to reveal themselves as almost naked, I have to bare myself, expose myself as well. That's what creates excitement.

Jacques Audiard

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

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