Affected Quote by Paul Haggis

When I went to university, I finally got exposed to European films, and they had a strong impact on me. I felt those films…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

In Europe, there are many filmmakers working in the same territory: immigration, and the things that are most disruptive to European life today. That's…

— Jean-Pierre Dardenne

I was always intrigued with European cinema, and hated most American cinema. I didn't like the one, two, three - boom! style, with a…

— Lee Daniels

Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life…

— Andrzej Wajda

I'm really drawn to European films.

— Isabel Lucas

In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience…

— Wim Wenders

In the U.S., some extraordinary movies have been made on politics and social issues. We learned lots of things from American cinema. But in…

— Costa-Gavras

I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.

— Jodie Foster

Whenever you do a movie, it's a culture shock. Who is it? Where are you? What are you doing? Who are these people? Where…

— William Atherton

European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the…

— Charlotte Rampling

Basically, I was a very serious film fan. I watched a lot of cinema and contemporary and European film.

— Tom Sturridge

Movies suddenly became film and cinema an art form and terribly chic.

— Judith Crist