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.

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.

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.

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.

War scenes are less difficult than love scenes.