After 10 years of
After 10 years of French torture – psychological torture – it’s great to do an American movie. Emmanuelle Beart
American Movie
Very often with an
Very often with an American movie, the end is very happy and you just feel good when you go out. When you go to a French movie, it’s kind of like, oh!, and you can’t go out; you’re stuck in your chair. It goes so deeply inside of the heart. Emmanuelle Beart
The Deer Hunter is
The Deer Hunter is securely on my list of American movie events, by which I mean those films that aspired to the whole equation, to be show business and art at the same time. Edward Jay Epstein
We have a thriving
We have a thriving subculture of ‘independent’ American movies that makes an impact on America as a whole roughly equivalent to that of a the modern literary novel. These are the films sincere viewers marry, whereas, once upon a time, movies were a lifetime of one night stands. Edward Jay Epstein
In Malaysia, where Western
In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I’d grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People wanted to be like Americans. In contrast, when I got here, I saw prosperous middle-class American college students wanting to somehow join the Third World. Feisal Abdul Rauf
Mrs. Robinson, you\’re trying
Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me… aren’t you? Dustin Hoffman
I always used to
I always used to wonder why American actors were getting fat, then I made a U.S. movie. I’m seeing all the food every day, and there’s lots of waiting around because making an American movie is very slow. Donnie Yen
Where I come from,
Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies. Daniel Day-Lewis
I was sick and
I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good. Daniel Craig
Frankly, my dear, I
Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn. Clark Gable