Zitat des Tages von Jacques Audiard:
Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream.
When someone is punched in the face, you find out what they are made of.
The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them.
If you look at American studios, the big productions have nothing to do with reality.
Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world.
The most heroic thing you can do is tell someone that you love them.
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.
Do we root for Michael Corleone in the 'Godfather' films? I think so, even if he is a monster.
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.
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.
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.
Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.
Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.
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.