Do we root for Michael Corleone in the 'Godfather' films? I think so, even if he is a monster. Jacques Audiard More Quotes by Jacques Audiard More Quotes From Jacques Audiard The most heroic thing you can do is tell someone that you love them. Jacques Audiard heroiccan-do If I ask my actors to bare themselves, to reveal themselves as almost naked, I have to bare myself, expose myself as well. That's what creates excitement. Jacques Audiard excitementnakedactors Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street. Jacques Audiard streetscinema Something that I tell myself every morning when I wake up is like: "Think it over, take the time to think it over." I don't like spontaneity, there you go. I'm wary of it. Jacques Audiard wake-upmorningthinking When things aren't working out, we have a tendency to say, 'Go do other things,' but you shouldn't do other things. You need to stay at your desk and continue to try to write. You need to insist on it. Jacques Audiard work-outwritingtrying Cool? Am I cool? I don't know, but I hope my characters are cool, in the sense of iconic. That's my job, at its very essence. Jacques Audiard essencejobscharacter I really believe the form of the film must be in the scenario; cinema is not just added value to the scripting. I believe in it as a totality. Jacques Audiard cinemafilmbelieve When things aren't working out, screenwriters have a tendency to say, "Go do other things," but you shouldn't do other things. You need to stay at your desk and continue to try to write. You need to insist on it. Jacques Audiard work-outwritingtrying When someone is punched in the face, you find out what they are made of. Jacques Audiard madefaces In movies, it's so easy to have this 'boom,' to kill, and I think that's inhumane. Jacques Audiard inhumaneeasythinking Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful. Jacques Audiard subjectivebeautiful I think that cinema has always progressed through exchanges. Jacques Audiard cinemathinking I think 'Scarface' is a great film, but if you have a character like Tony Montana, you don't identify with him at all. I think it's very interesting instead to identify yourself with a character you don't like all the time. You can create a tension between the fiction and the viewer. You force the spectator to wonder about his actions. Jacques Audiard characterinterestingthinking For me, there was no great myth around the movies when I was a young child. My father was very simple about the whole thing. He did not consider cinema an art. Cinema was entertainment. Literature and music were art. Jacques Audiard fatherchildrenart The so-called "remake" is simply a commercial formulation of a much deeper exchange which accounts for the way cinema is what it is. Jacques Audiard remakescinemaway It's truly gratifying to see my films reach beyond a familiar public, to get a chance to move new audiences. It's nuts. It's extraordinary. Jacques Audiard chancenutsmoving When you're a kid and your father is an engineer, he goes to the office. I saw my father get up and go to the office in the house and write. But I don't see any similarities. Jacques Audiard writingfatherkids What interests me about genre is that the public connects immediately with it, it has certain rules, certain codes the audience recognizes. I can use that to create something very big. Jacques Audiard genre-isbigsuse An archetypal gangster is always at a remove. We can't get into his mindset. Jacques Audiard removegangstersmindset I was the little French boy who grew up hearing people talk of De Gaulle and the Resistance. France against the Nazis! Then when that boy grew up, he began to uncover things. We began to legitimately ask the question, 'What exactly did our parents do during the Occupation?' We discovered it was not the story they were telling us. Jacques Audiard parentboyspeople
