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

I think 'Scarface' is a great film, but if you have a character like Tony Montana, you don't identify with him at all. I think it's very interesting instead to identify yourself with a character you don't like all the time. You can create a tension between the fiction and the viewer. You force the spectator to wonder about his actions.

From Jacques Audiard

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

From Jacques Audiard

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

From Jacques Audiard

Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world.

From Jacques Audiard

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.

From Jacques Audiard

The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them.

From Jacques Audiard

If you look at American studios, the big productions have nothing to do with reality.

From Jacques Audiard

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

From Jacques Audiard

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.

From Jacques Audiard

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