Jacques Audiard Quotes

Do we root for Michael Corleone in the 'Godfather' films? I think so, even if he is a monster.

An archetypal gangster is always at a remove. We can't get into his mindset.

Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.

I don't like spontaneity; there you go. I'm wary of it.

Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.

In movies, it's so easy to have this 'boom,' to kill, and I think that's inhumane.

Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world.

The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them.

The cinema that interests me departs from realism.

The so-called "remake" is simply a commercial formulation of a much deeper exchange which accounts for the way cinema is what it is.

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.

If you look at American studios, the big productions have nothing to do with reality.

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.

When someone is punched in the face, you find out what they are made of.

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.

The most heroic thing you can do is tell someone that you love them.

I think that cinema has always progressed through exchanges.

Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream.