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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When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be constructed from lots of other paintings underneath. Some of these individual layers of painting were better than others, but that was something that you would often only realise retrospectively.
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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It was 'Shaolin Temple,' Jet Li's first movie. That was the movie that got me to want to learn martial arts. Then I became a huge Jet Li/Jackie Chan fan after that.
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I was obsessed with movies, and it ended up being the tool with which I could make friends. Because I was too painfully shy in other circumstances, I would say, 'Hey, do you want to make a movie?' And that's how I made friends, and it was also my escape.
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For each movie that I do, I like to find a specific language to tell the specific story.
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When you create a movie, you create something in your image.
