Books Quote by Melvin Van Peebles

I'm a French director, but what's important for me is that my stories have a universal message, whatever language they're filmed in.

— Maimouna Doucoure

They like my books better in England than in France; a translation would be very successful there.

— Marcel Proust

I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in…

— Jim Harrison

France is very welcoming to foreign writers.

— Israel Horovitz

I'm very happy in France making movies.

— Michel Hazanavicius

I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men -…

— Emmanuelle Beart

Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in…

— Sarah Bernhardt

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

It's funny, I started by making fake American movies, 'The Transporter' and stuff like that. I was shooting in France, but everything was in…

— Louis Leterrier

France is an idea, not a territory. They pay more attention to intellectuals here; they give artists and writers the feeling they're valued.

— Theodore Zeldin

In France, we don't yet have the craft that American TV does or big studios like Paramount. It was so cool going through those…

— Lizzie Brochere

I feel very close to French culture and to the French humanism, which occasionally one finds, even in the highest places. And therefore, all…

— Elie Wiesel