Jean-Jacques Annaud

The world distribution of French movies is a laughing matter. That is a fact.

War scenes are less difficult than love scenes.

I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans.

I would never create an image for myself; I'm not that clever.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'