American Film Quotes - Page 4

• There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.

  Jean Renoir

  Film, Realism

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• I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.

  Michael Caine

  America, Film, Foreigners

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• I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing.

  Barbara Hershey

  Thinking, Hands, Australia

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• The fact is that you could not be, and still cannot be, a 25-year-old homosexual trying to make it in the British film business or the American film business or even the Italian film business. It just doesn't work and you're going to hit a brick wall at some point.

  Rupert Everett

  Wall, Italian, Years

  "I wouldn't advise any actor thinking of his career to come out" by Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2009.

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• I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.

  Ian Hart

  Film, Bigs, Budgets

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The dean of the American Film Institute has written that I'm one of the very few auteurs in America. I've had freedom for 40 years to create art that is totally personal and is what I believe in.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Art, Believe, Years

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. August 12, 1997.

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• American films are the best films. This is a fact. Cinema is - along with Jazz - the great American art form. And cinema in a very real sense created the American identity that has been exported around the world.

  Ben Dreyfuss

  Art, Real, Identity

  "We Love America, and You Should, Too". James West and Ben Dreyfuss conversation, www.motherjones.com. July 3, 2015.

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• Most young people now are very vulnerable as to what the American film aficionados are going to say. They care too much about a system that has no room for them. It's really a serious issue for me, because to me it's, how do I survive beyond a film that was disgraced or praised?

  Haile Gerima

  Issues, People, Care

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The future of American film lies on television.

  David Hare

  Lying, Television, Film

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• Night Watch itself is a very Russian movie. Its impossible to imagine this kind of movie somewhere else: a movie with a depressing ending, a lot of inexplicable storylines, strange characters. Its a Russian reflection of American film culture.

  Timur Bekmambetov

  Depressing, Character, Night

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• Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are.

  David Mamet

  Talking, People, Film

  David Mamet (1991). “On Directing Film”, Penguin Group USA

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