“England is strictly class-based. What's surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running around gardens and talking in middle-class accents.” PeopleMadeStillsRunningFilmTalkingClassMiddleGardenEnglandSillyMiddle ClassSurprisingLoadAccents Author:Stephen Daldry
“The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake up to that, for a variety of reasons. It still shocks me how few films are written or made in England about working-class life, given that those are the people who go to movies.” PeopleHas BeensMadeStillsReasonStoriesFilmGivenClassSuccessfulWrittenIndustryEnglandWake UpVarietyShockWorking ClassFilm IndustrySuccessful Work Author:Stephen Daldry
“When I moved to Paris in the '70s, there wasn't very much going on in film in England. So when I started doing French films, there was a natural movement toward the kind of films I wanted to do. It wasn't the reason I came, but it so happened that I stepped into a time and place that actually corresponded to what I wanted. That sometimes happens in life. And it was rather beautiful.” KindSometimesReasonHappensWantedBeautifulFilmNaturalHappenedMovementEnglandMovedParis Author:Charlotte Rampling
“Many things have changed in our culture here in England as a direct result of the Pistols: the whole street-fashion thing in London, for example, or the coverage of popular culture in the national press, or the fact that the film industry is now about young people making films about young British issues.” PeopleWholeFactsFilmYoungCultureResultsIssuesStreetsFashionExampleChangedIndustryDirectEnglandPressesBritishLondonCoveragePopular CultureFilm IndustryPistolsThings Have Changed Author:Julien Temple
“In England "The Day After," though unpopular with viewers, seems to have confirmed the average Englishman's mindless prejudice against Kansas. Shortly after the film portrayed that state being turned into an overused barbecue pit by nuclear weapons, support for British nuclear weapons rose a full percentage point.” StatesSeemsFilmSupportWeaponsPrejudiceEnglandRoseAverageBritishNuclearNuclear WeaponsViewersPercentagesPitsEnglishmenMindlessKansasBarbecueOverused Author:Emmett Tyrrell
“I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.” IfsKnowsPlayFilmAbilityCareersEnglandIndependentIndependent FilmNew England Author:Randy Harrison
“The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.” MindFilmFormConscienceIdealsTestsEnglandCinema Author:George Bernard Shaw
“I have made almost as many films in England as I have in America. I will come back to England again and again.” MadeAmericaFilmEnglandAgain And Again Author:Steven Spielberg
“I grew up looking at... going to the movies a lot, as much as they'd let you. I grew up in Manchester in the north of England in the '40s and '50s. I saw a lot of movies. They were all Hollywood and British movies. I didn't see a film that wasn't in English until I was 17 when I went to London to be a student.” FilmSawsStudentsGrewGrew UpHollywoodEnglandBritishLondonManchester Author:Mike Leigh
“It's hard to get yourself into a position where someone will trust you to direct a film anyway, whatever sex you are. Certainly in England, the film set is a very male preserve. There's a lot of very rough looking men pushing equipment around that don't want the gaffer to be a girl.” MenWantHardFilmGirlSexPositionDirectEnglandMalesPreservesPushingRoughEquipmentFilm Set Author:Colin Firth
“For us in England, the relative value of the pound against the dollar, that has a huge impact on how easy it is to get our films made in the U.K.” MadeFilmValuesEasyHugeEnglandImpactDollarsPoundsRelativeRelative Value Author:Eric Fellner
“It is captivating, isn't it? England has such a great scene of electronic music, and I think that was very prominent in Pusher, and the nightlife was the beat of the film. I feel what is really great about Pusher is that it wasn't about drugs and guns and strippers. That was just all circumstantial. I felt like it was really about people and how decisions and circumstances can change relationships. Something just happens. Everything changes for a reason.” PeopleThinkingFeelsReasonHappensFilmFeltDecisionCircumstancesSceneDrugBeatsGunEnglandReally GreatThings ChangeProminentElectronic MusicCaptivatingNightlife Author:Agyness Deyn
“People are piling into England, there's lots of studio films happening there. When we budget our films we multiply it by 1.55 it's much easier than when we multiply it by 2 so the cost looks a lot less in dollars, because everybody talks in dollars in terms of finance. And then the shift that I think is coming, I hope is coming, is movies made in a..."simple" is the wrong word, you visit movie sets all the time I imagine, the whole process has just got so big.” PeopleThinkingLooksMadeWholeBigsFilmProcessTermSimpleImagineEasierCostHappeningsEnglandDollarsStudiosFinanceBudgetsMovie SetsWrong Words Author:Eric Fellner
“As a biracial girl growing up in England, I'd never really seen any historical characters who looked like me depicted on film before that weren't being brutalized or playing slaves.” CharacterFilmGirlGrowing UpGrowingEnglandHistoricalSlaveLike MeBiracialGirls Growing Up Author:Gugu Mbatha-Raw
“I always thought that the location of this film [Girl In The Train] was on the train and inside her imagination, and her loneliness and her gaze out the window.Although it was set in England, it didn't feel to me like an overly English book. In terms of the use of cultural references, it was not extreme, so it was very simple to go from England to America in the adaptation.” FeelsBookUseAmericaFilmGirlTermImaginationSimpleLonelinessWindowEnglandTrainExtremesLocationAdaptation Author:Erin Cressida Wilson
“The reason I live in America is because I mean literally every six or seven years I've done something in England. The last lead I had in an English film I did was 1998. So that's why I live here. It's because I get more work. I'll travel back for radio, you know what I mean. I've just got to consider myself to be living in the middle of the ocean, and that way I have a really nice career, if I'm prepared to do television, radio, theater, and film.” IfsKnowsWayYearsMeanReasonDoneLastsAmericaFilmCareersNiceMiddleTelevisionOceanSixEnglandTheaterPreparedSevenRadioSeven YearsReally Nice Author:Rufus Sewell
“I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.” WorldWantWritingWantedFilmAreasEnglandStudiosLondonNew World1960sEmergingSuburbsMetropolitan Author:J. G. Ballard
“In Hollywood there's a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there's a great suspicion of the new. In cultural terms, that can be a good thing, but when you're trying to break into the film industry, it's definitely a bad thing.” PeopleTryingFilmTermBreakIndustryHollywoodEnglandGood ThingsBad ThingsOpennessAppetiteSuspicionFilm Industry Author:Christopher Nolan
“No, I chose the name Jane Seymour because I was doing my first film, 'Ode to Lovely War,' and one of the top agents in England spotted me dancing in the chorus. I was a singer and dancer in that movie with Maggie Smith, um, and he told me he couldn't sell me as Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg.” FirstsWarFilmNamesEnglandSellsDancingSingersLovelyAgentsDancerJaneChorusJoyceMaggieOdes Author:Jane Seymour
“My experiences in film and theatre in the States have been much more rigorous-in England there's an environment of, Let's try this.” TryingHas BeensStatesFilmEnvironmentEnglandTheatre Author:Kim Cattrall
“My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably count on one hand - he says exactly why, actually why he's frightened for his daughter. He came to this country, England, and had a bit of a crappy time.” CountryHandsFilmMotherFatherBitsHavensDaughterEnglandBritishFrightenedAsian Author:Parminder Nagra
“So much of today's film culture, in England and America, is based on lies, really. The industry is very ambitious, and success has become such an opium, people start from the wrong place they forget sometimes that the core of what we do is storytelling. It serves a need, a purpose for the individual and society to pull us together in shared experience and help us realize we're not alone in that experience.” PeopleNeedsSometimesHelpingTodayTogetherAmericaFilmLyingPurposeCultureIndividualRealizingForgetIndustryEnglandCoreStorytellingDeceitAmbitiousNot AloneOpiumShared ExperiencesIndividuals And SocietyEngland And America Author:Joe Wright