Quotes About European Cinema

#1. But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive.

Wim Wenders

#2. I disagree with the followers of Marx and those of Adam Smith: the reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky, thanks to aggressive trial and error, not by giving rewards or "incentives" for skill.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#3. The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior.

Dennis Prager

#4. My parents were huge fans of westerns, European cinema, and horror in particular. They wouldn't just show me kids' films.

Hideo Kojima

#5. It is not that men become too intelligent for God,' says the Apologist, 'but rather they become too arrogant for intelligence.

Criss Jami

#6. Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.

Samuel Johnson

#7. When I discovered European filmmakers, it affected me so deeply. It redefined what cinema could be. I mean, 'Blow-Up' ends with a dead body and mimes playing tennis. What?

Paul Haggis

#8. When I was little, I thought about becoming a lawyer like my parents, and my mother would always tell me, "You can do anything you want - except be a lawyer."

Alexandra Daddario

#9. Speech does not always unravel matters. Words can betray you, their labyrinthine threads tangled in knots, for we were cursed at that great tower of Babel, to speak always in riddles and never yet to comprehend.

Ned Hayes

#10. Arms stop me from crumpling like a rag doll. Sometimes you don't need to talk things out. Sometimes, with the right person, things just need some time to percolate on their own, without the messy lunge and parry of discussion to hinder them.

Jonathan Tropper

#11. I feel very much ideologically, politically if you like, and emotionally part of the European cinema.

Mike Leigh

#12. In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement.

Heather Donahue

#13. Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.

Rachel Corrie

#14. The qualities required to be a good leader are usually incompatible with the qualities required to become a leader.

Francis Mont

#15. My mom used to have a lot of European cinema playing in the house, so I'd catch bits and pieces of films.

Mia Wasikowska

#16. It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.

Hal Price

#17. I cannot be defeated, because you are not my opponent. I cannot lose, because I am not fighting. And in the end, all I have to do to win is honor the path I have chosen and honor yours, too.

James A. Owen

#18. How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land.

Al-Shafi'i

#19. 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

#20. They were too much to carry
so i left them behind
for a new life, in a new place
but no one forgot who i was
i didn't
and neither did the people who watch
they watched for years
they watch now

Ally Condie

#21. I am very happy to be part of European and world cinema as a British filmmaker.

Mike Leigh

#22. In Europe, there are many filmmakers working in the same territory: immigration, and the things that are most disruptive to European life today. That's not a judgment. I think it's good that cinema looks at such things.

Jean-Pierre Dardenne

#23. I came to Hollywood and I loved it. It was a great time, but in my head I was still elsewhere, in Europe. I believed in a certain cinema, which I still do believe in - a certain European cinema - and as a young woman being in America, I thought I was being taken away from that.

Valeria Golino