British film Quote by Noel Clarke

England is strictly class-based. What's surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running around gardens…

— Stephen Daldry

I think it's important that we have a new batch of British film-makers that aren't doing the same old stuff. And that includes me.

— Noel Clarke

I think it's time British filmmakers stopped allowing themselves to be colonized so ruthlessly by U.S. ideas and stopped looking so slavishly to the…

— Ken Loach

In many ways the film business is behind what's going on culturally. We are a world that is becoming more diverse and there's no…

— Rick Famuyiwa

In Hollywood there's a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there's a great suspicion of the new. In cultural…

— Christopher Nolan

In a lot of films, they're showing more complete, developed characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The larger concern is to be able to tastefully…

— Forest Whitaker

What we're seeing is a backlash against any attempt, whether from the world of scholarship or popular culture, to paint non-white people back into…

— David Olusoga

Any time you have people of different races in a movie that's about America, there's going to be a racial component.

— John Lee Hancock

The problem with the British film industry is that it's really the American film industry, or a small branch of in lots of ways…

— David Mackenzie

There are [in Hollywood] some endemic problems and some things that happen over and over again. There's the problem of representation of basically anybody…

— Karina Longworth

We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them…

— Roger Ebert

I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.

— Kristin Scott Thomas