American Quote by Jacqueline Bisset

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

If I was ambitious in my career, then I would have moved to the United States and given it a good go at films.

— Keeley Hawes

European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the…

— Charlotte Rampling

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

— Donnie Yen

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

I loved American filmmakers when I was growing up. I didn't get to film school or anything. I was a very bad student. I…

— Paul Haggis

Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I must say, to my great surprise and pleasure, I deeply loved making movies in the United States because of all the opportunities it…

— Denis Villeneuve

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 was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.

— Daniel Craig

I came to Hollywood and I loved it. It was a great time, but in my head I was still elsewhere, in Europe. I…

— Valeria Golino

When I joined films, I was clueless about the industry and had no aspirations to be an actor.

— Arvind Swami