French Quotes

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Not many French producers work the American way. In France, the director decides everything, he has final cut. I'm trying to do things differently, without… — Thomas Langmann
I grew up watching a lot of French cinema. — J.H. Wyman
Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as legislature.... So people who go to bed to sleep Must count French premiers or sheep,… — Ogden Nash
I cling to the basic set of tenets laid out in Tom Wolfe's 'New Journalism' - to get out there like the great French novelists… — Peter York
You never see a French person eating alone. — Pierre Dukan
My way of remaining French was the financing scheme I used for Quest for Fire, with Fox funds, since it started as a 100% American… — Jean-Jacques Annaud
When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies. — Jean-Jacques Annaud
When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris. — Jean-Jacques Annaud
When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him.… — Jean-Jacques Annaud
The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in… — Jean-Jacques Annaud
The world distribution of French movies is a laughing matter. That is a fact. — Jean-Jacques Annaud
I would not go so far as to say that the French trade unions attached greater importance to the struggle for peace than the others… — Leon Jouhaux
Many of the French follow a Trade with the Indians, living very conveniently for that Interest. — John Lawson
From the sea came a boat with some Israeli commando soldiers who took me by the commando boat to the yacht and put me on… — Mordechai Vanunu
We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something going on in a small… — H. L. Mencken
Leaving the complications of the human breakfast-table out of account, in an elemental sense, the egg only exists to produce the chicken. But the chicken… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English. — Hector Hugh Munro
I'd had a French education for three years, my father being in the army. From 9 to 12, I went to French school. I've been… — Charlotte Rampling
When I moved to Paris in the '70s, there wasn't very much going on in film in England. So when I started doing French films,… — Charlotte Rampling
Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air! — Thomas Carlyle
I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden shoes. — Oliver Goldsmith
All of life is more or less what the French would call s'imposer, to be able to create one's own terms for what one does. — Kenneth Tynan
There is a satisfactory and available power in every one to learn drawing if he wishes, just as nearly all persons have the power of… — John Ruskin
Poor Englishwomen! When it comes to their clothes- well, the French reaction is a shrug, the Italian reaction a spreading of the hands and a… — James Laver
The imagination is a place all by itself. A separate country. Now, you've heard of the French nation, the British nation. Well, this is the… — George Seaton

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