40 Quotes by Jacques Audiard

I come from a tradition of screenwriting -- with a co-writer -- where everything is challenged, where you have to defend every idea, ... I am a robber of ideas, but for there to be ideas, you have to have discussion. If everyone takes my word for the truth, you can't do that.

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

Do we root for Michael Corleone in the ‘Godfather’ films? I think so, even if he is a monster.

When you’re a kid and your father is an engineer, he goes to the office. I saw my father get up and go to the office in the house and write. But I don’t see any similarities.

When things aren’t working out, we have a tendency to say, ‘Go do other things,’ but you shouldn’t do other things. You need to stay at your desk and continue to try to write. You need to insist on it.

I don’t feel comfortable with violence, and I’m not sure that I film violent scenes properly, and it’s something I’m reticent to do, and yet violence is sort of in all of my films.

Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn’t beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.

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.

It’s truly gratifying to see my films reach beyond a familiar public, to get a chance to move new audiences. It’s nuts. It’s extraordinary.