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