Books Quote by Ralph Gibson

Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood.

— Herb Ritts

French photography was basically poetic, and mine was vulgar and brash and violent, except that there's never any violence in the photographs: it's only…

— William Klein

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

I think that in France, we really admire American films, we admire their drive, we admire the modernity and ellipsism in the film and…

— Francois Cluzet

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

In France, it's always about life, normal life. We always stick with these realistic things. So when French people are dreaming about American movies,…

— Berenice Bejo

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

— Woody Allen

My photography is very European. In America, I always get the sense that people are comforted by understanding what they're looking at. Photography's quite…

— Anton Corbijn

The culture of France is unique because it's a culture that has a high priority on the arts, more than any other place in…

— Frank Gehry

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

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

When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris.

— Jean-Jacques Annaud