Top 19 Quotes by Jean-Jacques Annaud

The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.

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.

America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture.

If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know when they go see a movie that it is fiction.

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.

War scenes are less difficult than love scenes.

I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.

To do the writing, I have to have time to do research.

I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.

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.