French Cinema Quotes

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  Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Movie, Beautiful, Gambling

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Ideas, Cinema, Pity

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• French cinema audiences usually don't express anything. Certainly not satisfaction.

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Cinema, Satisfaction, Audience

  "The Artist: the silent film they said no one wanted to see" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2011.

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• When I was a young man, my friends and I and all of us in New York were very influenced by French cinema. French cinema played an enormous influence on those of us who wanted to be filmmakers.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Men, Cinema

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• French cinema allows women to look... a certain way and be talented at the same time.

  Gina Bellman

  Cinema, Looks, Way

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• French cinema has always been very interesting, and it's still very powerful. I think it goes to show that it's great to still have a cinema that doesn't try to emulate, for example, American cinema.

  Louis Leterrier

  Powerful, Thinking, Interesting

  "Director Louis Leterrier Talks Shooting On Location, Practical Effects vs. CG, and More on the Set of NOW YOU SEE ME". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 15, 2013.

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• It's the golden age of French cinema again but it's because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Birthday, Law, Age

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• This is one of the things I don't like so much about French cinema - we have tendency to concentrate on actors and dialogue and we don't care so much about the visual aspect. I love when you use all the elements at your disposal.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Cinema, Use, Actors

  "Inside Jeunet's box of tricks". Interview with Richard Mowe, www.eyeforfilm.co.uk. June 13, 2014.

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• There's a fashion, or maybe you could call it a necessity, in French cinema to make social films, which is to say films in which the characters are defined by their social context.

  Louis Garrel

  Fashion, Character, Cinema

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I grew up watching a lot of French cinema.

  J.H. Wyman

  Cinema, Grew Up, Grew

  "Showrunner J.H. Wyman Talks the Final Season of FRINGE, When to Expect Answers, Creating a Rewarding Conclusion and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 3, 2012.

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• I am still associated with a heroic period in French cinema, and my name remains linked to this period.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Names, Cinema, Heroic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Blade Runner is one of my favorite films. But, so many thing influenced me that aren't science fiction because they were just good drama. I grew up watching a lot of French cinema. I was in love with The English Patient, and movies that are very romantic in nature and have a positive message. That's a large part of my fingerprint.

  J.H. Wyman

  Drama, Blade Runner, Messages

  Source: collider.com

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• All my life, I have loved and been inspired by French cinema, and as a studio head it has been my pride and joy to have the ability to bring movies to audiences around the world.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Pride, Joy, Cinema

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• What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution. I was in Italy, but completely in love with the nouvelle vague movement, and directors like Godard, Truffaut, Demy. 'The Dreamers' was a total homage to cinema and that love for it.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Dreamer, Directors, Cinema

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