Jean-Jacques Annaud Quotes

A good fight scene is really a good love scene.

Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

Love songs are the most complex to write because everyone knows about it.

I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.

Love is a kind of warfare.

Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write.

Every lover is a soldier.

Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.

A good love story always keeps the pot boiling.

Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life.

I think love's exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.

Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.

Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

I love a bit of passion.

The best kisses have something behind it - maybe something has been smoldering for a while, and it's about to happen.

Ah, colonel, all’s fair in love and war, you know.

I think the song itself, 'Smoke and Fire,' is just a metaphor for the feelings that you feel in a relationship.

When you hear a romantic song, the feeling is incomparable.

What's a better foundation for drama? You have power, you have ambition, you have sex... that's the stuff of drama.

'State of Play' is a romantic story at its heart.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Is love a fancy or a feeling.... or a Ferrars?