Ludivine Sagnier Quotes

I don't think the idea of working in Hollywood really exists anymore. I think you work in films, and where the film is shot is where it's shot. The studio system doesn't really exist.

I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.

The mecca of filmmaking in the world just so happens to be in America. It's quite simply a case of us just going where the work is.

It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.

I'm a European, and I live there. I work in European films, and then once in a while, I make an American movie.

There's no need to live in L.A. Half of Hollywood's films are shot in London, anyway.

Our film society back home is so different from here. Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language. It's just figuring things out and understanding the codes and how the system of Hollywood compares to that of Norway. We don't even have agents. There's no studio system, no managers.

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.

I would like to have a movie under my own control sometime, and see what could be done with it. Who knows? Maybe Hollywood will make an improvisational movie someday.

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

When I came out to Hollywood, I discovered the perfect place for my creative madness - Cannon Pictures.

It's nice when you're working in Hollywood and there's a movie you'd like to see that no one is making anymore. You make it yourself.

'Butch Cassidy' was the only film I ever enjoyed making.

'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.

Big feature films are another world.

In America, they shoot budgets and schedules, and they don't shoot films any more. There's more opportunity in Europe to make films that at least have a purity of intent.

I've dealt with Hollywood about having my work made into a film or cartoon but nothing came of it. That's not to say I wouldn't like to see something happen.

When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris.

If you love movies, then you love America.

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

America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture.

The film business has so many twists and turns that it's a miracle any film gets made.

But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.

Most of the work that I have done for the American Hollywood things have not been in Hollywood. The studios are going out in Europe or around the place working.

I don't think there's a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter.