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"The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you."
"The only thing we don't do together is get in front of an actor and show any indecision at all about what we think. We don't always agree, so we meet privately, then one or the other will approach the actor."
"I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it."
"It is unfortunate that the poor judgment shown by a small group of young actors has tarnished the reputation of every child who has ever appeared before a camera."
"I phoned this number and said, Please, sir, I want to be an actor."
"No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement."
"That's one of the reasons I wanted to be an actor, to be like them. And there they were at my table, all talking about how nervous they were, about the lines, and so forth. No matter how big you get, you still have the same kinds of anxieties and so forth."
"Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them."
Explore more quotes by Jean-Jacques Annaud
"When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation."
"When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris."
"I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature."
"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."
"When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies."
"America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture."
"If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know when they go see a movie that it is fiction."
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