Jean-Jacques Annaud Quotes

Jean-Jacques Annaud — French Director born on October 01, 1943,

Jean-Jacques Annaud is a French film director, screenwriter and producer, best known for directing Quest for Fire, The Name of the Rose, The Lover, and Seven Years in Tibet. Annaud has received numerous awards for his work, including four César Awards, one David di Donatello Award, and one National Academy of Cinema Award. Annaud's first film, Black and White in Color, received an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film... (wikipedia)

There is a broad cultural current that conveys the idea that a film is like a football team, it represents a nation, it is illustrated literature, filmed radio. These are outdated concepts, totally out of touch with today's realities.

The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.

I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.

To do the writing, I have to have time to do research.

When you create a movie, you create something in your image.