Foreign Language Films Quotes

I've never thought about doing international films. But if I get something exciting, I might take it up. Everything depends on what comes my way.

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.

I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.

I grew up looking at... going to the movies a lot, as much as they'd let you. I grew up in Manchester in the north of England in the '40s and '50s. I saw a lot of movies. They were all Hollywood and British movies. I didn't see a film that wasn't in English until I was 17 when I went to London to be a student.

When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film.

I did Tamil film, 'Mehandi Circus.' I want to do Bangla cinema and other regional and foreign languages.

I find it really difficult when you make a movie where it is set in Russia and everyone speaks in English. It drives me crazy.

It's funny, I started by making fake American movies, 'The Transporter' and stuff like that. I was shooting in France, but everything was in English. But then afterwards, I was looking at real French movies like the Jacques Audiard movies.

I do almost all my movies in French. I dub them.

The earliest movies that I loved were French movies and Italian movies. I grew up watching those kind of movies and often find the truest looks at human nature - you can find them in another country's movies.

In general, I almost always watch foreign films.

I've been working a long time, and mostly European films.

I like independent films... European films. I do go and see popular films as well because my kids force me.

I don't remake any movie, whether old or of other language.

I never knew that I would even be making English-language films.

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.

Good movies are my weakness. I have seen several international movies ranging from English to Spanish, German, Russian, Japanese, and Chinese.

I'm always slightly worried if I do a film and we're filming it in Luxembourg. I know it's going to go straight DVD.

I am busy with other language films apart from Sandalwood.

I am very happy that Japanese film can cross borders.

A lot of country making films in English, but in Japan we are very shy to speak English.

If you are watching my films and wondering, am I missing humorous speak because I'm not Korean? Am I missing out? You don't have to worry, because you're only missing probably about a few cents worth out of your ticket price.

What makes international cinema so interesting is that each territory has its own sensibility. When you look at an Indian or French film, there's a certain flavor. And even though the language is different, if the film is successful, it has something very common and understandable.

When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.

I watch Denzel Washington films with subtitles.