Extraordinary Quote by Kevin Macdonald

I was seduced by the nouvelle vague, because it was really reinventing everything. And the Italian cinema that one would see in the theaters…

— Bernardo Bertolucci

John [Cassavetes] loved actors. He gave them a lot of freedom. So if something came up that a certain actor just felt at the…

— Gena Rowlands

We grew up near a cinematheque in Cleveland, so we were very influenced by international cinema, the French New Wave, Italian neo-realists.

— Joe Russo

“Orson Welles used to say that Italy was full of actors—fifty million of them—almost all good. He claimed the few bad ones were on…

— Beppe Severgnini

I've obviously always been aware of actor-oriented films, being an actor. Altman and Cassavetes were really strong. And then I realized their structures were…

— John Cameron Mitchell

Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I humbly thought about them. They occupy a…

— Dario Argento

Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined Id be acting in movies.

— Mathieu Amalric

Directors like Satyajit Ray, Rossellini, Bresson, Buñuel, Forman, Scorsese, and Spike Lee have used non-professional actors precisely in order that the people we see…

— John Berger

There are many actors who have inspired me: Spencer Tracy for his incredible elegance and, of course, Cary Grant. But, there's also an Italian…

— Alfred Molina

There's no big splashy renaissance in Italian films. We have good young actors and directors. What we lack are screenwriters. It's hard to write…

— Valeria Golino

I think the first British actor who really worked well in cinema was Albert Finney. He was a back-street Marlon Brando. He brought a…

— Anthony Hopkins

Why alhough the Renaissance eventuall became a Euope wide intellectual and artistic movement, and why did it developed first and most distinctively in Italy?…

— Brandon McCaw