French Film Quotes

You're watching us and you don't realize how much makeup and how much lighting is involved when we look good. We have a lot of help where we are. I don't think that it's healthy for young girls to be looking at these beauty magazines and watching TV and these shows and thinking [that's the standard]… there's more European attitude - you look at French film, Spanish film, they're a little more open to quirks and human nature. That we're not all symmetrical, not all the same shape… we need more of that.

There's a fashion, or maybe you could call it a necessity, in French cinema to make social films, which is to say films in which the characters are defined by their social context.

I really liked the Jean-Luc Godard movie, 'Film Socialisme.'

In France, I would like to worth with Patrice Chereau, who made 'Queen Margot.'

All my life, I have loved and been inspired by French cinema, and as a studio head it has been my pride and joy to have the ability to bring movies to audiences around the world.

I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'

I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.

I grew up watching a lot of French cinema.

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

La Haine - first of all, it was the story of friendship. I was very close with Mathieu Kassovitz; he was somebody I met in the nights of Paris. And the hip-hop scene and all that... You know, it was very much about doing our own thing, and some of the subject matter was so close to what we knew and the people we were hanging out with.

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

I think that what people abroad want from French film, inside French film becomes our worst fear, "Oh, another film about love!"

I am still associated with a heroic period in French cinema, and my name remains linked to this period.