Jean-Jacques Annaud Quotes
Sad Quotes by 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.
- Jean-Jacques Annaud

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

The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.
- Jean-Jacques Annaud

America is the only country capable of producing national movies:
its culture has become a global culture.
- Jean-Jacques Annaud

When you create a movie, you create something in your image.
- Jean-Jacques Annaud

British actors behave like Europeans;
they are also extremely well trained.
- Jean-Jacques Annaud

The financing of my films has always been international.
- Jean-Jacques Annaud

I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language,
as if movies were literature.
- 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.
- 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.
- Jean-Jacques Annaud

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

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

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.
- Jean-Jacques Annaud

When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet.
When the French make movies, they aim at Paris.
- Jean-Jacques Annaud

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

The French have got to understand that a film is so
expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional
or even national in scope.
- 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.
- Jean-Jacques Annaud

There is a broad cultural current that conveys the
idea that a film is like a football team,
it represents a nation, it is illustrated literature,
filmed radio.
These are outdated concepts, totally out of touch with today's realities.
- 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.
- Jean-Jacques Annaud

I have lost my seven best friends,
which is to say that God has had mercy on me
seven times without realizing it.
He lent a friendship, took it from me, and sent me another.
- Jean Cocteau

I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore

The soul would have no rainbow,
Had the eyes no tears.
- John Vance Cheney

Touch me in the morning
Then just walk away
We don't have tomorrow
But we had yesterday
- Ron Miller/Michael Masser

A person isn't who they are during
the last conversation you had with them -
they're who they've been
throughout your whole relationship.
- Rainer Maria Rilke

I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard

I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives
as much as if we had never married at all.
- Lord Byron

In every country and every age,
the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson

There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words,
and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
- Winston Churchill

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you
that you had the wrong job in the first place.
- Hal Lancaster

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
- Erica Jong

I was so jazzed about sobering up
and starting a new life;
I had to stop at a bar
to get a drink just to calm down.
- the television series Glee

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance
and hypocritical humility.
I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years
to have breakfast together,
but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.
- Winston Churchill

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim Soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.
- William Butler Yeats

It is much more painful to have lost
something you thought you had,
than never to have had it at all.
If feels as if our trust was dashed.
We are disappointed and we are angry;
but not quite sure at who to direct our anger.
Someone, perhaps "the system," perhaps God,
should have done better.
Most of all we are angry at ourselves -
even though we did our best -
and we are afraid.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares.
I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.
- Jonas Salk

As for accomplishments,
I just did what I had to do as things came along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

I never had a policy;
I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
- Abraham Lincoln

When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill

If you have been divorced, you know it hurts -
especially if your marriage had lasted many years.
Whatever the circumstances of your relationship,
and whatever the nature of its ending,
there is always grief and regret -
perhaps regret over the ending,
or perhaps regret over not ending the relationship sooner -
or perhaps both.
Nonetheless, move past the grief and regret.
No matter how painful, divorce, like all endings,
opens the door to new beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca

I had three chairs in my house;
one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau

Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono

If I had no sense of humor,
I would long ago have committed suicide.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

You can learn how to let go of the past.
Whether you have experienced a break up
with someone you cared for deeply,
whether death has taken a loved one,
whether you have had a feud with a friend or family member,
whether you have lost a job.
Move on and let go.
Life can be joyful and rewarding again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

What work I have done I have done because it has been play.
If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
- Mark Twain

Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart,
it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have found that hollow,
which even I had relied on for solid.
- Henry David Thoreau

I tried to remember how to exhale.
I had to look away before it came back to me.
- Bella, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer

It is only when we truly know and understand
that we have a limited time on earth
and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up
that we will begin to live each day to the fullest,
as if it were the only one we had.
- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had
because they didn't have the talent
or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
- Nelson Mandela

If someone had told me I would be Pope one day,
I would have studied harder.
- Pope John Paul I

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau

I wish I had the nerve not to tip.
- Paul Lynde

I am certainly not an authority on love because there
are no authorities on love,
just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.
- Bill Cosby

No stream rises higher than its source.
Whatever man might build, could never
express or reflect more than he was.
He could record neither more nor less
than he had learned of life.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead

Everyone who got where he is,
had to begin where he was.
- Richard L. Evans

It had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo da Vinci

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes,
I had one thousand and sixty.
- Imelda Marcos

Civilization had too many rules for me,
so I did my best to rewrite them.
- Bill Cosby

Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard

The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock

When I eventually met Mr. Right
I had no idea that his first name was Always.
- Rita Rudner

If I had known what it would be like to have it all -
I might have been willing to settle for less.
- Lily Tomlin