French Cinema Quotes:

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

- Jean-Luc Godard

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Beautiful, Gambling, Cinema, Cinematography, French Cinema

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

- Jean-Luc Godard

topic: Ideas, Cinema, Pity, French Cinema

French cinema audiences usually don't express anything. Certainly not satisfaction.

- Michel Hazanavicius

topic: Cinema, Satisfaction, Audience, French Cinema

When I was a young man, my friends and I and all of us in New York were very influenced by French cinema. French cinema played an enormous influence on those of us who wanted to be filmmakers.

- Woody Allen

topic: New York, Men, Cinema, French Cinema

French cinema allows women to look... a certain way and be talented at the same time.

- Gina Bellman

topic: Cinema, Looks, Way, French Cinema

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.

- Louis Leterrier

topic: Powerful, Thinking, Interesting, French Cinema

It's the golden age of French cinema again but it's because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law.

- Harvey Weinstein

topic: Birthday, Law, Age, Copyright Law, French Cinema

This is one of the things I don't like so much about French cinema - we have tendency to concentrate on actors and dialogue and we don't care so much about the visual aspect. I love when you use all the elements at your disposal.

- Jean-Pierre Jeunet

source: "Inside Jeunet's box of tricks". Interview with Richard Mowe, www.eyeforfilm.co.uk. June 13, 2014.

topic: Cinema, Use, Actors, French Cinema

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.

- Louis Garrel

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Fashion, Character, Cinema, French Cinema

I grew up watching a lot of French cinema.

- J.H. Wyman

source: "Showrunner J.H. Wyman Talks the Final Season of FRINGE, When to Expect Answers, Creating a Rewarding Conclusion and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 3, 2012.

topic: Cinema, Grew Up, Grew, French Cinema

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

- Jean-Luc Godard

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Names, Cinema, Heroic, French Cinema

Blade Runner is one of my favorite films. But, so many thing influenced me that aren't science fiction because they were just good drama. I grew up watching a lot of French cinema. I was in love with The English Patient, and movies that are very romantic in nature and have a positive message. That's a large part of my fingerprint.

- J.H. Wyman

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Drama, Blade Runner, Messages, Very Romantic, Good Drama

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.

- Harvey Weinstein

topic: Pride, Joy, Cinema, French Cinema

What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution. I was in Italy, but completely in love with the nouvelle vague movement, and directors like Godard, Truffaut, Demy. 'The Dreamers' was a total homage to cinema and that love for it.

- Bernardo Bertolucci

topic: Dreamer, Directors, Cinema, French Cinema