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"The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope."
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"How speak about an art which no one recognizes as an art? I know that a great deal has already been written about the "art of the cinema". One can read about it most every day in the newspapers & the magazines. But it is not the art of the cinema which you will find discussed therein--it is rather dire, botched embryo as it now stands revealed before our eyes, the still-birth which was mangled in the womb by the obstetricians of art."
"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."
"We don't watch the film anymore because we've seen it so many times, so we'll introduce it, walk out and we'll come back in right about when I wake up in the morning and walk over to the shop and everything's changed."
"Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums."
"Everyone starts a film thinking that it would be a big hit. But sometimes it goes haywire."
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"America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture."
"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."
"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."
"When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris."
"I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature."
"When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies."
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