Lena Headey Quotes

In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years.

Actually I don't watch a lot of films but when I do, I like experimental, avant garde, European and world cinema. That is the language of cinema I am drawn towards. I don't watch much Hollywood or Bollywood.

I write box notes for Kino International, which specializes in distributing foreign films.

Hollywood exists only for the B-movies. The best things are coming from Europe.

In general, I almost always watch foreign films.

Whereas European films have traditionally been able to go into adult relationships. I think there's a huge audience in America for those kinds of films.

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

I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.

I didn't go to classes there, but ended up at the Cinematheque, and there it opened up even wider because there I saw a variety of films from all over the world.

Of course, there's always one theater that shows some kind of European film. Now, fortunately, you have DVDs, so it's possible to get anything you want within a few hours. In those days, it was virtually impossible to get Italian films, or German films, or whatever. So I grew up with very standard, mainstream films.

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

I didn't have any idea that I would be able to have a career in film.

I'd love to do more independent films.

I'd like to do one European film a year.

I haven't done an international film for a long time.

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

The great thing about film is you start and finish. It's a journey that lasts so long, TV lasts a long time.

I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.

I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries.

I went back to film work after Dobie. I went back to film work after Dobie.

I would love to go to film school.

I grew up in Evanston and lived in Chicago for a long time, in Old Town and Wrigleyville. I did three films when I was in high school. The first was 'Class,' with Rob Lowe. I had a supporting role in that.

My early films were very European based. It was 'As It Is In Heaven,' 'Together,' they were great international successes, but then I did, I think, 60 movies or something.

I was always interested in film, but I never knew how to go about becoming a filmmaker.

But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.