Jean-Jacques Annaud
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Jean-Jacques Annaudis a French film director, screenwriter and producer, best known for directing Quest for Fire, The Name of the Rose, The Lover, and Seven Years in Tibet. Annaud has received numerous awards for his work, including four César Awards, one David di Donatello Award, and one National Academy of Cinema Award. Annaud's first film, Black and White in Color, received an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth1 October 1943
CountryFrance
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.
I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.
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.