America Quote by David Hare

I think it's time British filmmakers stopped allowing themselves to be colonized so ruthlessly by U.S. ideas and stopped looking so slavishly to the…

— Ken Loach

The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof

— Mary McCarthy

When we came to America, the movies here needed a "new wave." European films looked totally different than American movies, which were these lush,…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

I even think the commercial element of new American directors is really fertile right now. There are a lot of filmmakers with very particular…

— Jim Jarmusch

As much as we'd like to believe that our work is great and that we're infallible, we're not. Hollywood movies are made for the…

— Harold Ramis

Britain is producing some of the worst films in the world. Our film industry is desperate to be part of America, and we just…

— Catherine McCormack

We didn't create the culture of film. We certainly market it better than anyone in the world, but film could have happened anywhere. It's…

— David Simon

Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening…

— Ben Hecht

A good part of why I never went back to England was part of that, I didn't want to be in those sort of…

— Tim Roth

I think it's important that we have a new batch of British film-makers that aren't doing the same old stuff. And that includes me.

— Noel Clarke

The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies.

— Jason Statham

When I say that I am going to do an American film, I didn't want to suddenly go off into a completely different world…

— Park Chan-wook