Ken Loach Quotes

I've always felt that, although Truffaut was greatly revered and admired, at the same time, in terms of film and how much he loved film, he was underestimated.

I love beautiful black-and-white movies - anything Bette Davis, especially 'Now', 'Voyager', 'Casablanca', 'Mildred Pierce'; anything by Orson Welles, Truffaut, or Godard; and 'Paper Moon' by Peter Bogdanovich.

My favorite Tyler Perry movie? Ugh, how can you decide? For me, it's basically like: Kurosawa, Tyler Perry, Martin Scorsese, in that order.

So many of Spielberg's films inspired my imagination growing up. And then there are British films like 'The Full Monty' and 'Waking Ned Devine' that took me to places I really loved, with characters I just thought were amazing. But the films of Luc Besson showed me France - a really cool side of France.

You get all these French directors who have all these pretty, vacuous stars of their movies - from Jean Seberg on - who have become iconic but were never really good actors.

I guess all the directors in France are influenced by Hitchcock, because he's the perfect visual director, in my eyes.

The films I liked were European films - Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, François Truffaut.

I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman.

I feel that 'Rudraksh' is Mani Shankar's answer to Steven Spielberg.

When I made '101 Reykjavik,' people talked about 'Almodovar on ice.' When I made 'The Sea,' people referenced Bergman.

Jacques Audiard has always been an outlier in a French film industry that is starkly bifurcated between high and low.

Whenever I used to watch Hollywood films, I used to feel, when would Tollywood make such films?

I'm a Coen Brothers fan - especially their early work.

I'm inspired by film-makers such as Ridley Scott, David Fincher, Orson Welles.

I was always an admirer of French movies when I was young.

And I was very, very much influenced by the films of Jean Cocteau and by Sartre and everything that came out of France because it was closer than America or England.

I was a big fan of Luc Besson and obviously Ridley Scott.

I grew up in England, and at the time, cinema was very heavy arthouse cinema, and there was no one making movies that were designed to be in multiplexes.

Murnau is neck to neck with Bergman as my favorite director. He's responsible for some of the best images in cinema of all time, from 'Nosferatu' to 'Faust' to 'Sunset.'

I started really idolizing people like Nicole Holofcener and Whit Stillman.

I've been pretty lucky to work with directors who were quite influenced by European cinema.

I would love to work with anybody who has a good story to tell - Patrick Graham, Vikramaditya Motwane, Anurag Kashyap, Neeraj Ghaywan, Coen Brothers, Wes Anderson. I don't know why I was not considered for that Indian guy's part in 'The Grand Budapest Hotel.'

I am inspired by the kind of films Raj Kumar Gupta and Imtiaz Ali make.

I got a chance to work with so many stalwarts from British cinema. Judi Dench, of course, who is a legend. Then there was my director Stephen Frears. He is the man who made some of British cinema's salient trendsetters.

Akira Kurosawa, David Lean and Alfred Hitchcock were the main inspirations for 'Samurai Jack,' along with a lot of '70s cinema.