Never prone to see human attributes as a case of the positive outweighing the negative, Jacquot cannot always find financing for his concepts and occasionally has worked writing screenplays for others. In 1983, he wrote "La Guerre des demoiselles/The Young Ladies' War," about a real event in France. He also wrote the songs for "Le Navire nuit" (1979) and has acted in small roles in a number of the films since the late 70s, including "Le Theatre des matieres" (1977), and "La Memoire Courte/Short Memory" (1979).