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Jean-Jacques Annaud

"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."

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Donna Grant

"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

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Donna Grant

"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."

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Donna Grant

"There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things."

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Donna Grant

"I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies."

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Donna Grant

"I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can."

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Donna Grant

"In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film."

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Donna Grant

"When they tell me one of my old movies is on TV, I don't look at it."

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Donna Grant

"When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world."

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Donna Grant

"My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'"

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Donna Grant

"I left 'Law and Order' because I really honestly did want to do movies and did want to be a movie star since I was a little girl."

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Jean-Jacques Annaud
"I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans."

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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 Paris."

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Jean-Jacques Annaud
"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."

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Jean-Jacques Annaud
"My way of remaining French was the financing scheme I used for Quest for Fire, with Fox funds, since it started as a 100% American production. The film was not in French and yet was French in style, reflecting my personality."

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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."

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Jean-Jacques Annaud
"The world distribution of French movies is a laughing matter. That is a fact."

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Jean-Jacques Annaud
"I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can."

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Jean-Jacques Annaud
"To do the writing, I have to have time to do research."

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Jean-Jacques Annaud
"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
"War scenes are less difficult than love scenes."

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