Complexity Quote by Wesley Morris

Making movies in France is different, but it's still acting, you know. You still have doubts and you're scared, always, but I really love…

— Lea Seydoux

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

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

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

— Woody Allen

France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French…

— Tyler Cowen

Movies in this country, its very complicated, and we could bang on about it forever, but the French movie industry is very different because…

— Mick Jagger

“THIS IS A BOOK ABOUT FRENCH CINEMA, specifically the women of today’s French cinema—a subject as vital as life and as irresistible as movies.…

— Mick LaSalle

It wouldn't have existed without France, and it's a French initiative. As a filmmaker, I owe everything to France - I got accepted at…

— Deniz Gamze Erguven

If I would want to have a huge audience, I would make American movies, not French movies, because there is a limit of course…

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

What I think I'm perceived as in France is, like, I'm this leading man always doing strange movies because most of the movies I…

— Vincent Cassel

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

Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but…

— Wim Wenders