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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I don't think policy makers surprise unnecessarily. You don't pick surprise as a part of your policy. Markets value a certain amount of predictability. But there are certain areas where surprise is a tool.
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'You are welcome, most noble Sorceress, to the land of the Munchkins. We are so grateful to you for having killed the Wicked Witch of the East, and for setting our people free from bondage.'
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I speak French, and I grew up with French, so my English is Franglais.
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As an artist you have to fight and survive the wilderness to keep your creative freedom. Creativity is very fragile.
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Communists love to make films about composers, because composers compose music and don't talk subversive things.
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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.
