Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.

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• Jean-Jacques Annaud:

  When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at

• Jean-Jacques Annaud:

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

• Jean-Jacques Annaud:

  When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Pic

• Jean-Jacques Annaud:

  There is a broad cultural current that conveys the idea that a film is like a football team, it rep

• Jean-Jacques Annaud:

  The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be re

• Jean-Jacques Annaud:

  America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global c

• Jean-Jacques Annaud:

  The world distribution of French movies is a laughing matter. That is a fact.

• Jean-Jacques Annaud:

  If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know w

• Jean-Jacques Annaud:

  War scenes are less difficult than love scenes.

• Jean-Jacques Annaud:

  I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to de