Cinema Quote by Yorgos Lanthimos Download Open image “It's weird to try and identify a nationality for a film.” — Yorgos Lanthimos ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cinema Film Identify Logic Nationality Try Weird
I've often gone to start a film only to find the producers surprised to discover that I'm American. — Alessandro Nivola Copy Share Image
A really irritating thing when you're watching a film is if somebody's accent isn't bang-on - it distracts you from getting into the story… — Rachel Hurd-Wood Copy Share Image
I was never very interested in my own experience, I think, in fact, if my films have a common link, maybe it's being a… — Claire Denis Copy Share Image
I think it's important to be extremely proud of one's origins, especially when you are a foreign actress with ethnic features. — Freida Pinto Copy Share Image
I find it very interesting these days that films are bringing in so many people of different ethnicities, and I'm proud to be a… — Freida Pinto Copy Share Image
People have to identify with their own stories, with their own lives, so a movie belongs to a country and to a culture. Sometimes… — Carole Bouquet Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think, because of my background, which is slightly more exotic than the average British actor, I think, I sort of occupied this little niche quite early on of playing the foreign guy. It started way back at drama school, I played an Eastern European heavy, I played the Russian mobster. And I have done all those different ethnic roles,… — Alfred Molina Copy Share
The moment there's a foreigner in a film it gives a novelty to the script. We make regional films and we need to hype… — Arin Paul Copy Share Image
It's really hard because obviously people label you as a British East Asian actor. And I'm just from Salford; it's where I was born. — Benedict Wong Copy Share Image
I don't think of the characters as nationalities. I do not live in India. Playing people from different backgrounds, including Indians, comes easily to… — Sarita Choudhury Copy Share Image
Doing a film with somebody who's from a different country or culture than you is very fulfilling because they bring with them different insights,… — Ryan Eggold Copy Share Image
As long as I can make the films I want to make in decent conditions, I am happy. — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to progress with every film I make and become better. — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
For me, filmmaking is not about making statements but about exposing human behavior so people are eager enough to start thinking on their own… — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
When people don't understand what they're watching, a lot of what they perceive has to do with who they themselves are. — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
No studio picks up the phone after seeing 'Dogtooth' and goes, like, 'We have the next superhero movie.' Though if one did, that would… — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
I learned about making films by going into advertising, making commercials. — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
I don't have time to read much. I'm trying to read 'The Brothers Karamazov' again, for a year now - I keep getting halfway,… — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
Yeah, it shouldn't be an issue. Stories about women, about men, about homosexuals, about heterosexuals. We shouldn't point at what it is. — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
I think it's been obvious from the beginning that my projects are not going to be something that people already have in mind. You… — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
Anytime people see an emotion that is not extremely emotional, they call it 'deadpan.' — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people. — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong.… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play.… — Laura Carmichael Copy Share Image
I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
