40 Quotes by Jacques Audiard

Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream.

The so-called "remake" is simply a commercial formulation of a much deeper exchange which accounts for the way cinema is what it is.

In movies, it's so easy to have this 'boom,' to kill, and I think that's inhumane.

When someone is punched in the face, you find out what they are made of.

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.

I think that cinema has always progressed through exchanges.

Cool? Am I cool? I don't know, but I hope my characters are cool, in the sense of iconic. That's my job, at its very essence.

For me, there was no great myth around the movies when I was a young child. My father was very simple about the whole thing. He did not consider cinema an art. Cinema was entertainment. Literature and music were art.

Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.