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"If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know when they go see a movie that it is fiction."
Author Name
Personal Development

"There's only one Elizabeth like me and that's the Queen."
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"The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second."
Art

"My way of remaining French was the financing scheme I used for Quest for Fire, with Fox funds, since it started as a 100% American production. The film was not in French and yet was French in style, reflecting my personality."
French

"America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture."
American

"When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation."
Creation

"I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature."
Movies

"British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained."
Actor

"Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total."
Art

"The world distribution of French movies is a laughing matter. That is a fact."
Movies

"I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans."
Actor

"To do the writing, I have to have time to do research."
Time
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