Bad Quote by Sophie Okonedo

I remember doing the film 'Silver Dream Racer' in which the English version had me being blown up on the bike and the American…

— David Essex

The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.

— Idris Elba

I did a film in which Andy Garcia and Michael Keaton both played the leads, 'Desperate Measures,' and interestingly enough it was their biggest…

— Brian Cox

British audiences are toughest on British films. So often, a British film is the last thing they want to see. If you please them,…

— Simon Beaufoy

You hear about all the great British thespians doing stuff on the West End and that kind of thing, and I missed out on…

— Matthew Lewis

The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.

— Karel Reisz

I've heard from the movie marketplace that James Cameron did such a killer job with 'Titanic' that it's almost impossible to do anything better.

— Erik Larson

Coming from documentaries, my biggest challenge was to understand actors' psychologies. American actors take it all very seriously; British actors don't enter into all…

— Kevin Macdonald

I think, as a generation of British actors, we're becoming a bit soft and too manipulated by the business.

— Aneurin Barnard

I have always thought we should think less about the British film industry as an entity, and more about getting British talent working.

— Eric Fellner

There's definitely a wave of Brits doing great work on American television, and I wouldn't mind being one of them!

— Rob James-Collier

British drama can compete with America creatively. But the two systems are very different.

— Jed Mercurio