Jacques Audiard

Director

1952-04-30

Quotes by Jacques Audiard

• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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