Guillaume Canet Quotes

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

Maybe I've seen more Hollywood movies than French movies.

In general, I almost always watch foreign films.

I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.

I love good film, whether it's an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren't necessarily eccentric ones but they're the more specific ones.

My good films were independent and my bad films were not.

I must stick with Chinese language films.

I love European films in general. If I were to go to the movie store or something, that's what I like to see.

I mean, I love action films, you know, good action films.

I'm looking for little movies that are good instead of picking scripts in pursuit of superstardom.

I'm really drawn to European films.

Because I've made a film with such an amazing director as Tarantino, I'm much more conscious of working with good directors from now on, so that's what's important to me. I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.

Audiences want to watch good films, even if it is dubbed in another language.

I love indie movies - I feel they can really allow you to develop a character.

I saw what I could [in Mexico City], but we rarely got anything other than big, mainstream American films.

If you look at the least effective of the 'Twilight' movies, it was when they brought in an action-movie director instead of a director who was really a good storyteller. And you can tell the difference.

I've always seen movies in English with Spanish subtitles. For audiences around the world, the language is less important than if it's a good film.

Many French directors, having now realised there was no more real criticism, that the standards of the past have gone, are very offended about the quality of film criticism.

Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.

If you ask me, I alternate between truly bizarre, what you would call 'Hollywood' movies and truly bizarre, what you would call 'arthouse' movies.

Those 'Airplane!' type of movies, they've never been my cup of tea.

I'd like to be in a Western.

I've always been against the idea of dividing films between festival titles and popular movies. I think you can make films that are both.

I like boring black and white films with subtitles. I'm basically a drip.

I enjoy making feature films, but I'd rather be in a good TV series than mediocre movies.