America Quote by Sophia Loren

There's no big splashy renaissance in Italian films. We have good young actors and directors. What we lack are screenwriters. It's hard to write…

— Valeria Golino

I absolutely refuse to accept the fact that any country in the world goes into a kind of film-making crisis. What happens is they…

— David Puttnam

I want to make films with a broad scope; produced in Italy but looking at the world.

— Ginevra Elkann

Even before the economic crisis in Greece there was no structure for making films - no proper industry, and the structure didn't help filmmakers…

— Yorgos Lanthimos

Hollywood is a wonderful machine for making big movies. In France, we make smaller and more personal films, but if things keep changing, this…

— Ludivine Sagnier

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 America, they shoot budgets and schedules, and they don't shoot films any more. There's more opportunity in Europe to make films that at…

— Paul Bettany

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 think, to go to the bottom of it all, that the films I have made and my kind of film-making is a hybrid…

— Sergio Leone

When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film…

— Monica Bellucci

What makes French and Italian films wonderful is they make them for themselves; they are not made with us in mind at all.

— Jean Marsh

The American movie, in part because America's a melting pot, the cultural hodgepodge that America makes, generates movies that have appeal across all international…

— Howard Stringer