Country Quote by Michel Hazanavicius

Making movies in France is different, but it's still acting, you know. You still have doubts and you're scared, always, but I really love…

— Lea Seydoux

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

If you look at the Oscars and look at the Best Foreign Language series, you see that the films are coming from everywhere -…

— Philippe Falardeau

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

Personally, I don't give a toss about French viewers. I make films for foreigners - it's a bit like Ken Loach, who's not very…

— Bruno Dumont

In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's…

— Wesley Morris

I'm very happy in France making movies.

— Michel Hazanavicius

Americans have a certain idea of what films are and the French have a much deeper sense of cinema. The cinémathèque is like a…

— Jerry Schatzberg

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

— Woody Allen

The foreign-language Oscar is something that doesn't go to the producer or the director; it goes to the country.

— Deniz Gamze Erguven

Saul Bellow says, funny enough, what French think of your work is tremendously important. And it is. It's more than what the Italians, the…

— Martin Amis

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