Cinema Quote by Jean-Jacques Annaud

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

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

— Jean-Luc Godard

France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French…

— Tyler Cowen

American films, it's a money-making industry. And in France, you can find great respect for cinema as art.

— Woody Allen

Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than…

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but…

— Wim Wenders

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

— Michel Hazanavicius

When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for…

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

The French movies that are promoted abroad are the ones that give a trendy, cultural, petit bourgeois, upper class image of France, but it's…

— Gaspar Noe

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 dealing with social subjects in France become very paternalist. They want to teach lessons. They don't show poorness like a normal situation.

— Gaspar Noe

France loves American cinema because when an American remake is successful, it makes us money to produce more French films.

— Clotilde Hesme