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.
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When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris.Jean-Jacques Annaud
There is a broad cultural current that conveys the idea that a film is like a football team, it represents a nation, it is illustrated literature, filmed radio. These are outdated concepts, totally out of touch with today's realities.
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The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.
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If 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.
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The world distribution of French movies is a laughing matter. That is a fact.
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When you create a movie, you create something in your image.
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