#french

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

It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

#french #geese #led #profound #swans

I want to be adopted by the French. I want to go to live in Paris. ↗

— Asia Argento

#french #go #i #live #paris

I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely. ↗

— Josephine Baker

#even #frenchmen #i #insult #like

'Escargot' is French for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm'. ↗

— Dave Barry

#crawling #fat #french

After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#american #american movie #french #great #movie

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

#american movie #chair #deeply #end #feel

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. ↗

— Monica Bellucci

#american movie #come #film #french #going

The word Chivalry is derived from the French cheval, a horse. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#derived #french #horse #word