American Quote by Andrew Lau

I pulled out of making movies in about '96 or '97.

— Rick Moranis

I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.

— Ted Kotcheff

I've often gone to start a film only to find the producers surprised to discover that I'm American.

— Alessandro Nivola

I think I'm a very American director, but I probably should have been making movies somewhere around 1976. I never left the mainstream of…

— James Gray

I've done quite a few big American films.

— John Malkovich

I want to make more films in the heartland, the forgotten America.

— Chloe Zhao

As an actress, I always wanted to do movies, and I never dreamt about doing movies in America just because I didn't think it…

— Marion Cotillard

I spent a couple of years doing American films. I did a few.

— Donnie Yen

I've always wanted to work in America because of those brilliant east-coast political movies of the '70s and '80s - great scripts, wonderful performances,…

— Andrew Lincoln

I saw what I could [in Mexico City], but we rarely got anything other than big, mainstream American films.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I'm a European, and I live there. I work in European films, and then once in a while, I make an American movie.

— Monica Bellucci

I was trying to get into the film industry in Mexico and nobody was letting me in. I was looked down upon as a…

— Melissa Barrera