Art 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

When you start talking about movies of that size, they're trying to sell globally to foreign markets. So there is an economic question that…

— Joe Robert Cole

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

— Woody Allen

France can compete with the Hollywood studios in terms of animation savoir-faire, but not in terms of box-office figures. France is a small country,…

— Michel Ocelot

French cinema has always been very interesting, and it's still very powerful. I think it goes to show that it's great to still have…

— Louis Leterrier

Hollywood is a wonderful machine for making big movies. In France, we make smaller and more personal films, but if things keep changing, this…

— Ludivine Sagnier

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

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

— Jean-Luc Godard

In Europe, where we have all these different forms of financing and cultural funds and systems like that, it's a good mixture of supporting…

— Baran Odar

I think it's important that nobody forgets that although Hollywood commercially dominates the world cinema, in fact what comes out of the filmmaking here…

— Mike Leigh

I think cinema is taken a bit more seriously in France.

— Ken Loach

When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making…

— Olivier Megaton