American Films Quotes

I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.
Jackie Chan

American, Films, Asian

I've done quite a few big American films.
John Malkovich

Done, Big, American

When I first envisioned 'Funny Games' in the mid-1990s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American cinema, its violence, its naivety, the way American cinema toys with human beings. In many American films, violence is made consumable.
Michael Haneke

Funny, Human, Made

The most heinous shift in American films is that they reinforce good things like 'couples' and 'relationships.'
Alexander Payne

Good, American, Films

Middle-class Pakistani cultural life is what I've seen, what I know - they're not all screaming faceless mullahs. It's disturbing that in American films, the character on the other side is not even named.
Mira Nair

Life, Character, American

With Vietnam, the Iraq War, so many American films about war are almost always from the American point of view. You almost never have a Middle Eastern character by name with a story.
Mira Nair

War, Character, American

When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
Baz Luhrmann

Country, Big, American

Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys.
Max von Sydow

Nice, Bad, American

Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films.
Douglas Sirk

American, Comedy, Seen

American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.
Vincente Minnelli

Important, Why, American

'St. Elmo's Fire' is one of my favorite films. I like the storytelling of those teenage American films. You don't get that now. Teenage American movies are all about sick jokes, puking a lot, arse jokes.
James McAvoy

Movies, Fire, Sick

There's an abundance of exposure when you start working in American films. Inevitably you become a brand and that has to be controlled.
Tom Hardy

Working, Become, Start

Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American films to be premiered and distributed in Brazil and vice versa.
Walter Salles

American, Create, Films

I first decided to become an actor at school. A teacher gave us a play to do and that had a major impact. At first, I wanted to work in the theatre, but there was something about the ambience of film, especially American films, that always attracted me.
Jean Reno

Work, Teacher, School

I'd rather do theatre and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.
Kate Winslet

Small, American, Rather

I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
Ian Hart

American, Films, Attracted

OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of other smaller, really exciting, maybe experimental films, being paid rubbish but working with fine people, that was what I thought I was known for.
Joely Richardson

Successful, Career, Thought

I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.
Ted Kotcheff

Wanted, American, Making

European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films.
Charlotte Rampling

Freedom, Find, American

Making African American films are hard in Hollywood. We need to rely on a support network and bring more cohesion to different filmmakers, actors, producers etc. It's a very difficult business. There aren't a lot of Africans Americans or people of color in high positions in Hollywood that we can green-light films.
Paula Patton

Business, Hard, Different

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