Basically, I was a very serious film fan. I watched a lot…

I'm inspired heavily by film influences - David Lynch's Blue Velvet, Federico Fellini, Alfred Hitchcock, Pedro Almodóvar, and what I see in the cinema…

— Miles Aldridge

Nevertheless, in the theatre, and in the cinema, the contemporary reality of Poland has been represented only to a minuscule degree in the last…

— Andrzej Wajda

Basically you can do anything in a film. I could have place a spaceship in the middle of a street. You can do anything,…

— Kleber Mendonca Filho

I just feel like it's so amazing every few years when I'm not making a film to act and basically go back to film…

— Sarah Polley

I feel like theatre gives me the grounding, and keeps me alive, basically. Film gives me the thrill, and it's like a one night…

— Marisa Tomei

I became Patti's [Smith] messenger, basically, and the film is my view of how I learned about Patti.

— Steven Sebring

Basically, every film I've been a part of has been pretty sad and pretty hard to watch.

— Charlie Plummer

I'm pretty focused on what I do. I think directing is a very specific talent, and I'm not real big on putting puzzles together,…

— Samuel L. Jackson

In Europe, where we have all these different forms of financing and cultural funds and systems like that, it's a good mixture of supporting…

— Baran Odar

African films should be thought of as offering as many different points of view as the film of any other different continent. Nobody would…

— Elvis Mitchell

Of course, there's always one theater that shows some kind of European film. Now, fortunately, you have DVDs, so it's possible to get anything…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.

— Diane Kruger

My favourite film-maker west of the English Channel is not English - but to me doesn't seem American either - David Lynch - a…

— Peter Greenaway

I'd like to do one European film a year.

— Nick Nolte

European films had art. And it was easy to make a European film. They didn't come from the studio system, they weren't shot in…

— Vilmos Zsigmond