Quotes of: American-film Keyword

I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.

Yahoo Serious

I like a film such as 'American Beauty,' and I like 'Spider-Man.'

Ridley Scott

I've done quite a few big American films.

John Malkovich

When I did 'Bird,' it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn't in it and second because most of the films I'd been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence o...

Clint Eastwood

I made 'Siam Sunset.' In Australia, it was pretty much universally hated, but I did notice that almost any American who saw it loved that film, so in 2001 I made a film in America called 'Swimfan,' and they released like a big studio movie, and it ma...

John Polson

I would rather do really good French films than 'American Pie.'

Guillaume Canet

My goal is to make as many films as possible about different aspects of American life.

Frederick Wiseman

The most interesting of the classic movie genres to me are the indigenous ones: the Western, which was born on the Frontier, the Gangster Film, which originated in the East Coast cities, and the Musical, which was spawned by Broadway. They remind me ...

A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies

'American Graffiti' stayed in my mind, but I don't think to this day I've done a film that captured that same level of melancholy. It was so well done. Talking about it has given me the idea I might try harder to make that melancholy film!

Jean Reno

OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of other smaller, really exciting, maybe experimental films, being paid rubbish but working with fine people, that...

Joely Richardson

There aren't many American directors here trying to direct a Japanese yakuza film. When you combine that with the fact that I don't speak much Japanese and this was an independent film I was financing myself - people were curious about what I was doi...

John Foster

Helen: We saw a wonderfully funny American film last night. Inez: Who was in it? Helen: Oh, I don't know. I forget the name. Gil: Wonderful but forgettable. It sounds like a film I've seen. I probably wrote it.

Midnight in Paris

I was a trial lawyer. At the same time, I was a teacher. I taught about the political and social content of film for American University. Then I left and became a teacher at the University of California at Santa Cruz. I taught about the political and...

Ben Stein

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.

Martin Scorsese

What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.

Francois Truffaut

I spent a couple of years doing American films. I did a few.

Donnie Yen

I'd like to film a British commercial; they're better than American ones.

James Earl Jones

I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.

Vera Farmiga

I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

Ang Lee

What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions.

Wim Wenders

The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization.

Fredric Jameson