Top 44 Quotes About American Cinema

#1. In the U.S., some extraordinary movies have been made on politics and social issues. We learned lots of things from American cinema. But in the last ten or fifteen years, this has changed drastically. Today, that kind of movie is much easier to make in Europe.

Costa-Gavras

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#2. I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s.

Wim Wenders

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#3. In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema.

Gerard Depardieu

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#4. I always had this huge respect for American filmmakers and American actors. I always had this very strong love and respect for the American cinema. I always knew that I was going to leave Sweden.

Noomi Rapace

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#5. I had no aspirations to be part of American cinema ... I was really a Europe-based person, and those were the films I was inspired by.

Jacqueline Bisset

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#6. The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?'

Tommy Lee Jones

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#7. Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema.

Andrzej Wajda

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#8. From the American newspapers you'd think America was populated solely by naked women and cinema stars.

Nancy Astor

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#9. When I first envisioned 'Funny Games' in the mid-1990s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American cinema, its violence, its naivety, the way American cinema toys with human beings. In many American films, violence is made consumable.

Michael Haneke

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#10. North American cinema is the only true weapon of mass destruction. It has achieved to convince the audience not only that it's the best possible cinema, but that it is the only.

Arturo Ripstein

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#11. France loves American cinema because when an American remake is successful, it makes us money to produce more French films.

Clotilde Hesme

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#12. I loved movies as a teenager and saw as much American cinema as I could, but I hated the English films of the early '60s and had absolutely no point of identification with them.

Stephen Rea

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#13. Cinema is capitalism in its purest form ... There is only one solution - turn one's back on American cinema.

Jean-Luc Godard

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#14. American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.

Sergei Eisenstein

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#15. I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema.

Tatum O'Neal

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#16. I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

Quentin Tarantino

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#17. Action roles - or any role - should go to the best guy for the job. People obsess about nationality. Hollywood and America might be the hub for pop culture and cinema for the Western world, but that shouldn't suggest that all the roles should go to young American men.

Jai Courtney

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

Woody Allen

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#19. Even in the realest American cinema that I see, there's still not that sense that this is reality. There's still that sense that you are watching a movie. And hopefully, if we did get our jobs right, that sense disappears when you watch this movie.

Joshua Leonard

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#20. I was a young film student around the time of the new wave in film in the 1970s; old Hollywood was naff and over. For me, as a film student, I was going to see French and Italian cinema; American cinema was 'Easy Rider' and 'Taxi Driver.' Everything was gritty.

Gillian Armstrong

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#21. I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking.

Eriq La Salle

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#22. In American cinema, people will take a chance on you, though they'll often remind you that really, they always liked you.

Kim Basinger

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#23. I think there's a fear of difference in American cinema.

Ira Sachs

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#24. Hollwood creates useful entertainment. There are millions of people on earth who need distraction and American cinema fulfills that function.

Claude Lelouch

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#25. American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international.

Bertrand Tavernier

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#26. 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

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#27. In France, if you have any sort of talent, you'd better keep it here. And if you're going to go abroad, it had better not be America. The old battle - American versus Frog cinema. It's ridiculous.

Jean Reno

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#28. Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.

Manuel Puig

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#29. Dancer, bride, runaway wife, radical filmmaker and pioneer -
Shirley Clarke is one of the great undertold stories of American independent cinema.

Manohla Dargis

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#30. The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.

Michael Caine

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#31. I was always intrigued with European cinema, and hated most American cinema. I didn't like the one, two, three - boom! style, with a neat and tidy ending. That was never my scene.

Lee Daniels

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#32. Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.

Jacques Delors

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#33. The American independent cinema is as formulaic as Hollywood and one genre is what you might call the 'inaction movie'. The setting is invariably a decaying town in a regional backwater where a catalytic stranger or returning native meets up with a group of sad, eccentric outsiders.

Philip French

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#34. Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it ... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.

Alexander Payne

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#35. Every film is the result of the society that produced it. That's why the American cinema is so bad now. It reflects an unhealthy society.

Jean-Luc Godard

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#36. The blue collar milieu was something that I really understood and resonated with me and I thought was underrepresented in American cinema.

Christian Bale

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#37. We want to assist China's soft power; we want to develop a vibrant young cinema in China. The average American has no understanding whatsoever of China. We'd like to create a young generation to tell their stories on a world stage. We can make history as well as make money.

Robert Friedland

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#38. The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay? The imposition everywhere of a unique culture, which is Hollywood culture, and a unique way of life, which is the American way of life.

Bernardo Bertolucci

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#39. 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

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#40. American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

Tom Hooper

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#41. I don't want all of American cinema to be big cartoons that are just made to be digested by the entire world.

Alexander Payne

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

Jean-Luc Godard

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#43. On the outside, America looks like this great melting pot, but on the inside, there's this segregation in American cinema. Why does a Latino film have to be for Latinos? Why is a black film just for black people? Why?

Gurinder Chadha

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#44. I think there's a growing courage among the younger generation of American writers. Because of the more superficial treatment of characters taking place in cinema, they have had to deal with that by digging deeper into who these people are.

Mohsin Hamid

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