Jean-Jacques Annaud Quotes
The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.

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Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
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Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.
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Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.
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Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000.
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I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. I thought that this electric typewriter was about the most fascinating toy in the world - I liked the little bell and the sounds and the feel of the keys and especially the erase key.
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For a long time, I so badly wanted to work with Jeremy Piven, and I ended up on 'Mr. Selfridge' with him. He was such a character - so brilliant to work with.
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Energy is so important. If you don't have it, don't bother with rock and roll.
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Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.
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I would go home and be this insular girl who listened to music and brooded in her bedroom.
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To be honest, I was born in luxury. I never saw the dearth of money, so money is not something which motivates me.
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When you get older, 10 matches a year are enough.
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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.
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Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country?
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.
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And yet, those who speak loudly and call anyone who disagrees with them a wimp often do a disservice to the cause they are promoting.
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I think I have a lot of energy, and most of it is quite aggressive energy. But in a positive way, I think. It's like a positive aggression.
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I love 'Starship Troopers.' I've seen it ten times.
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I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.
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The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.