#french

I am a Moroccan writer of French expression. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#expression #french #i #i am #writer

As the winter set in with its customary Canadian severity the real trouble of the French began. They did not suffer from the cold, but they were dying of scurvy. ↗

— Harry Johnston

#canadian #cold #customary #did #dying

Most correspondents came from the former colonial powers - there were British, French, and a lot of Italians, because there were a lot of Italian communities there. And of course there were a lot of Russians. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#british #came #colonial #communities #correspondents

Nearly all Italian officers speak French. ↗

— Hugh Dalton

#italian #nearly #officers #speak

I'd had a relationship with a French girl, a Japanese girl, an American girl, a Filippina and she was there all the time - a Lancashire girl. I thought: 'It's a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didn't I realize it?' ↗

— David Thewlis

#french #girl #had #i #japanese

At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#been #blind #brother #brothers #dead

Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done. ↗

— Lalla Ward

#done #eiffel #eiffel tower #film #finally

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

— Harvey Weinstein

#age #because #cinema #copyright #french

People know that I have a great love for cinema. Not just for commercial cinema, but for the 'cinema d'auteur.' But to me, two of the great 'auteurs' are actually actors and they both happen to be French. One is Alain Delon and the other is Jean-Paul Belmondo. ↗

— Harvey Weinstein

#both #cinema #commercial #french #great

Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#course #credible #criticism #decay #film