Jacques Audiard

Jacques Audiard
Jacques Audiardis a French film director and screenwriter; the son of Michel Audiard, also a notable screenwriter and film director...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth30 April 1952
CountryFrance
cinema realism interest
The cinema that interests me departs from realism.
art cinema literature
The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them.
ipads world cinema
Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world.
way cinema remakes
The so-called "remake" is simply a commercial formulation of a much deeper exchange which accounts for the way cinema is what it is.
believe cinema film
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.
thinking cinema
I think that cinema has always progressed through exchanges.
cinema streets
Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.
baseball chase
It wouldn't be unthinkable that he would chase her out with a baseball bat,
discussion interested proust
He was more interested in having a discussion on Proust than on Welles,
boys people parent
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.
reality looks bigs
If you look at American studios, the big productions have nothing to do with reality.
heroic can-do
The most heroic thing you can do is tell someone that you love them.
violence film scene
I don't feel comfortable with violence, and I'm not sure that I film violent scenes properly, and it's something I'm reticent to do, and yet violence is sort of in all of my films.
naked actors excitement
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.