#french

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

— Jean-Luc Godard

#american cinema #because #cinema #french #i

When I was 20, I went to Paris and tried to meet French women. It didn't work. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#french women #i #meet #paris #tried

I'm French, so I'm quite lazy about exercising, and I smoke. But I do love going for a run in the morning with my dog. That's all. ↗

— Eva Green

#about #dog #exercising #french #going

There's the soundtrack to The French Connection II'I think It's my favorite soundtrack. It hasn't been released. I actually had to go and get the film and just make a recording of it to get the music. ↗

— Jonny Greenwood

#been #connection #favorite #film #french

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

#around #audiences #been #bring #cinema

I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#ago #asked #because #books #both

Sure, I watched a lot of Hollywood movies. Maybe I've seen more Hollywood movies than French movies. ↗

— Michel Hazanavicius

#hollywood #hollywood movies #i #lot #maybe

But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director. Whether I'm French or Australian or whatever, it's really not important. ↗

— Michel Hazanavicius

#director #foreigner #french #frenchman #i

It's just incredible. When you're French, coming from a non-English language country, you don't even dream about Oscar recognition or nominations. It's just beyond the dream. It's something very, very special and unique. It's the highest recognition any filmmaker could dream of. ↗

— Michel Hazanavicius

#any #beyond #coming #could #country

French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#adultery #after #allow #between #consequently