Difficult Quote by Danielle Arbid

“THIS IS A BOOK ABOUT FRENCH CINEMA, specifically the women of today’s French cinema—a subject as vital as life and as irresistible as movies.…

— Mick LaSalle

"Parisienne" is about how you forge a life in a new place when you are 18. And it's about a Lebanese girl who discovers…

— Danielle Arbid

“THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN provided by French cinema don’t need to be exaggerated. The number of films either starring or dealing primarily with women…

— Mick LaSalle

... in the movies Paris is designed as a backdrop for only three things--love, fashion shows, and revolution.

— Jeanine Basinger

There's something about Paris, people just don't have anything else do there but love each other.

— Louis Garrel

It wouldn't have existed without France, and it's a French initiative. As a filmmaker, I owe everything to France - I got accepted at…

— Deniz Gamze Erguven

Movies in this country, its very complicated, and we could bang on about it forever, but the French movie industry is very different because…

— Mick Jagger

“France has the largest, most lucrative cinema in Europe, making it the second most successful cinema in the Western world (a distant second, monetarily),…

— Mick LaSalle

Maybe I've seen more Hollywood movies than French movies.

— Michel Hazanavicius

I think that what people abroad want from French film, inside French film becomes our worst fear, "Oh, another film about love!"

— Louis Garrel

I was born in Paris in the mid-1960s, and by the time I was 12 I had started going to the movies by myself.…

— Christian Louboutin

Paris is a very exciting city. I learned about Paris the same way that Americans do: from the movies.

— Woody Allen