Global Cinema Quotes

Even in Haiti, I saw John Wayne movies. American cinema has always been the dominant cinema throughout the world, and people tend to forget that. People aren't just seeing these films in California or Florida. They're seeing them in Haiti, in Congo, in France, in Italy and in Asia. That is the power of Hollywood.

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.

Films are made all over the world all the time and only a thin slice of that product is Hollywood.

I am very happy to be part of European and world cinema as a British filmmaker.

My ambition has always been to work with English and American actors and directors. Those were the movies that I was watching when I was growing up.

My sister Zoya and I have been exposed to the best of cinema of all kinds - Chinese, Japanese, Italian, etc.

I always maintain that the film industry and film people across the globe are more or less the same.

French cinema has always been very interesting, and it's still very powerful. I think it goes to show that it's great to still have a cinema that doesn't try to emulate, for example, American cinema.

The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.

As a Japanese actor, I really want to work with a lot of actors and actresses in the world and many directors who have many different kinds of talents. I feel like nationally doesn't matter at all.

Cinema has become a global economy, totally international.

I'm heavily influenced by European and American cinema, but the further I get in my career, the more I find myself looking back East for inspiration.

I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.

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.

Tokyo is wonderful for distribution of international films, a lot of Iranian films, Taiwanese films. But most of the art films are from Europe and Asia.

The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay? The imposition everywhere of a unique culture, which is Hollywood culture, and a unique way of life, which is the American way of life. But Hollywood has forgotten that, in the past, what made Hollywood great and what made it go ahead was the fact that Hollywood was fed with, for example, Jewish directors coming from Germany or Austria and enriching Hollywood. In 15, 20 years, Hollywood became imperialistic. Cinema goes ahead when it is marriaged by other culture. Otherwise, it turns on itself.

I think bad movies are made around the world, not just in Hollywood. There are as many bad art films in the whole world as there are bad commercial films.

I see myself as a storyteller and want to do films that are being made all over the world.

There are no Asian movie stars

There's so many films from around the world, I emphasize, that are so beautifully photographed, but they don't get the recognition.

I want to make films that cater to the world audiences.

Cinema in India is growing big time and people abroad have started recognising us.

If I can still have Hollywood and a piece of Bollywood, I will take it.

Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.

I think it's important that nobody forgets that although Hollywood commercially dominates the world cinema, in fact what comes out of the filmmaking here is only a tiny slice out of the massive amount of operation that goes on around the world.