Transnational Cinema Quotes

Shakespeare has been adapted by Akira Kurosawa. 'Dangerous Liaisons' has been adapted into a Chinese movie. 'Blood Simple', the Coen brothers movie, was adapted by Zhang Yimou.

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.

Personally, I don't give a toss about French viewers. I make films for foreigners - it's a bit like Ken Loach, who's not very popular in England but has had a lot of success in France. Cinema is always an experience in a foreign body.

I actually really love British and European cinema, but you have to go where the work is, and for me, it's in America.

I went to Yugoslavia to make a movie. People saw me there and asked me to do a movie in Germany. And that led to a movie in Italy. Before I knew it, I was in Europe for most of the next 10 years.

The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is in the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.

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.

Gozu' was influenced by American cinema.

I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s.

Yeah, I'd be happy to go back to Mexico or Japan to make another film.

If you're a film studio, you're making a movie for a foreign market. You're pursuing ideas that travel well. It changes the movies we see and how movies are made.

I think taking the biggest star in India and the biggest star in America, and putting them together in a movie that starts in America and ends up in India, or starts in India and goes to America. I think it would be a buddy cop formula.

While 'Babel' is a foreign-language film in some countries, in others, it is a local film.

Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.

Good cinema has no regional or linguistic boundaries.

I like the nexus of Bollywood and Hollywood. I'm actually shocked that there isn't more of a meld between our two industries.

The American movie, in part because America's a melting pot, the cultural hodgepodge that America makes, generates movies that have appeal across all international boundaries. And that's really not true for most domestic film industries. It's no longer true of France and Italy, less true than it used to be of the U.K.

Overseas directors who want to work in Hollywood, the language barrier is not a problem. With the right talent, any director can be successful.

I had no aspirations to be part of American cinema... I was really a Europe-based person, and those were the films I was inspired by.

I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.

The big French movie distributors are the Trojan horse of the American cinema.

Hindi film industry makes film for the rest of the world. Tamil films are watched by Malay people. When a film is not bound by a language, why should an actor be?

So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true.

I'm a European, and I live there. I work in European films, and then once in a while, I make an American movie.

I'm very open to making films anywhere in the world.