Jean-Jacques Annaud Quotes
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade school and high school.
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
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When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
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Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.
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Like most people - unless they're very practised at it or have no warm blood at all in their veins - I feel a little apprehensive about the red carpet. It's always a bit bewildering when people are taking pictures and asking questions before the ceremony.
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I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
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I don't really watch all that much television, I have to say, because I'm so intimidated by how many channels there are. I really cannot find my way back to anything. But I'm compulsively addicted to '24.' I love that show.
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If you have something to say, a movie is a really great medium to say it. It doesn't matter what the message is.
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My story sort of sounds ridiculous because the first movie I produced was 'E.T.'
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I know now that I want to do more voice-over projects. They really have the ability to transport you into the world of whatever movie it is you are working on.
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There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.
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I think the community that's created within a writers' room is a very interesting topic.
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When you create a movie, you create something in your image.
