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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These are my wakeup cupcakes, some anti-depressants and a cellphone book.
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'The Next Generation' was a lot of fun for a while, and then it wasn't a lot of fun. The reason it wasn't a lot of fun was that this one was going to be a guaranteed hit. The original 'Star Trek' was never a guaranteed hit.
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I push reforms. I tell the truth to people, even when it's tough for the country.
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We are facing serious problems with the start of negotiations. We are in intense negotiations
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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.
