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“I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.”

“When I'm making an American film, it's more safe because there are so many people on the set to watch me. Whatever I do, they say, 'What are you doing!? Tell me first!' There are so many restrictions.”

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Author:Jackie Chan

“A boy's best friend is his mother.”

“Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)”

Source: The Odes of Horace

“[When accepting the American Film Institute Life Achievement award] I beg permission to mention by name only four people who have given me the most affection, appreciation, and encouragement, and constant collaboration. The first of the four is a film editor, the second is a scriptwriter, the third is the mother of my daughter Pat (Patricia Hitchcock), and the fourth is as fine a cook as ever performed miracles in a domestic kitchen. And their names are Alma Reville.”

“Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.”

“You can't handle the truth!”

“Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... aren't you?”

“I feel the need... the need for speed.”

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

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Author:Max von Sydow

“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”

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Author:Charlotte Rampling

“A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.”

“I'd rather do theater and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.”

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Author:Kate Winslet

“I wouldnt mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly dont want to be in Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean.”

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Author:Audrey Tautou

“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.”

“Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.”

“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.”

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

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Author:Tom Hardy

“Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!”

“There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.”

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Author:Jean Renoir

“I am big. It's the pictures that got small.”

Source: Sunset Boulevard

“The VCR is to the American film producer, as the Boston Strangler is to the woman home alone.”

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Author:Jack Valenti

“Avant-garde means never having to say you're sorry.”

“Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.”

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

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Author:Vincente Minnelli

“In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.”

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Author:Yuliya Snigir

“Vasectomy means never having to say you're sorry.”

Source: Me and My Big Mouth

“The buried code of many American films has become: If I kill you, I have won and you have lost. The instinctive ethical code of traditional Hollywood, the code by which characters like James Stewart, John Wayne and Henry Fonda lived, has been lost.”

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Author:Roger Ebert

“The crime film is the most honest American film.”

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Author:Andrew Dominik

“I've done quite a few big American films.”

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Author:John Malkovich

“I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing.”

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Author:Barbara Hershey

“The fact is that you could not be, and still cannot be, a 25-year-old homosexual trying to make it in the British film business or the American film business or even the Italian film business. It just doesn't work and you're going to hit a brick wall at some point.”

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Author:Rupert Everett

“I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.”

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Author:Ian Hart

“The dean of the American Film Institute has written that I'm one of the very few auteurs in America. I've had freedom for 40 years to create art that is totally personal and is what I believe in.”

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Author:Lloyd Kaufman

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