Jacques Audiard Quotes
I think 'Scarface' is a great film, but if you have a character like Tony Montana, you don't identify with him at all. I think it's very interesting instead to identify yourself with a character you don't like all the time. You can create a tension between the fiction and the viewer. You force the spectator to wonder about his actions.
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Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.
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For years, I have repeatedly said that Maryland taxpayers were being overtaxed and overcharged.
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I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science, the mushier the ground gets. You start to say, 'Oh, there is an order and a spiritual aspect to science.'
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Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.
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You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.
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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
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What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?
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History is a series of mistakes. Now the task is to plan for those mistakes so those of us who are populists can actually take over the reins of power when the right mistakes are made.
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At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that.
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If you drop a channel, you're incredibly unpopular, and if you pass along a rate increase, you're incredibly unpopular.
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When we encounter suffering, it is important to respond w/ compassion rather than to question the politics of those we help.
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I think 'Scarface' is a great film, but if you have a character like Tony Montana, you don't identify with him at all. I think it's very interesting instead to identify yourself with a character you don't like all the time. You can create a tension between the fiction and the viewer. You force the spectator to wonder about his actions.
