“I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.” KindFilmGrewGrew UpEurope Author:Jodie Foster
“I grew up in Europe, and I used to like those very slow-moving European films. I've been contaminated by the American TV culture, and I just want things to move faster now.” WantFilmMovingUsedCultureTvsGrewGrew UpEuropeFaster Author:Rebecca De Mornay
“I learned that you can make a sci-fi film that is satisfying overseas. European people have everything in check. I'd make every sci-fi film in Europe. They only work 14 hours a day. After that, it's overtime.” PeopleFilmHoursEuropeChecksSatisfyingSci FiSci Fi Film Author:Michelle Rodriguez
“Every time I go to Europe, I remember that James Dean never saw Europe, but yet I see his face everywhere. There's James Dean, Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe - windows of the Champs Elysees, discos in the south of Spain, restaurants in Sweden, t-shirts in Moscow. My life was confused and disoriented for years by his passing. My sense of destiny destroyed - the great films he would have directed, the great performances he would have given, the great humanitarian he would have become, and yet, he's the greatest actor and star I have ever known.” YearsRememberFilmFacesActorsGivenStarsKnownDestinySawsEuropeWindowPerformancesSouthHumanitarianPassingPassingsDestroyedShirtsConfusedRestaurantsSpainT ShirtDeanSwedenMoscowDiscoGreat FilmGreat PerformanceBogartGreat Humanitarian Author:Dennis Hopper
“Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.” ThinkingShowsAmericaFilmInterestingFictionEuropeMakersFarewellMost InterestingGreat FilmEurope And America Author:David Hare
“I was in Hollywood. It's the mythology heart. It's where all the European films came in the '30s and '40s. The marriage between Europe and Hollywood has always been the best when it works.” HeartFilmEuropeHollywoodMythology Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“There's more emphasis on art and culture in Europe than there is in the United States and I think that a lot of American directors and writers are just trying to copy other American horror films, they don't pick up much in the way that European filmmakers do.” ThinkingWayTryingArtStatesFilmCultureUnitedUnited StatesHorrorDirectorsPicksEuropeFilmmakerCopiesEmphasisHorror FilmArt And Culture Author:Wes Craven
“When you deal with a film that takes place in Europe, and you're going to work in English, you'd better work with European actors.” FilmActorsDealsEuropeGoing To Work Author:Norman Jewison
“To be associated with a film that just flat-out makes people happy is such a blessing and a tremendous privilege, and I'll always be grateful for it. People's eyes light up when they talk about it. I've been in Asia, Africa, Europe and even Bhutan; people know the movie there. It's just an amazing thing.” PeopleKnowsLightEyeFilmBlessingEuropeGratefulPrivilegeFlatsBe GratefulAsiaAmazing ThingsLight UpMaking People HappyBhutan Author:Michael J. Fox
“It started so early, it all runs together. But what made a huge impact on me was when I went to Europe at 15 or 16 years old. All I knew before that was music on the radio and TV. When I went over there I realized there are all different levels of music. There are people who do blues, jazz, classical, working in film, TV and all kinds of places. You might not see them on MTV but there are lots of needs and uses and opportunities for all kinds of music.” PeopleNeedsYearsKindMadeDifferentUseMightRunningTogetherFilmOpportunityLevelsTvsHugeEuropeImpactJazzRadioI RealizedAll KindsMtvDifferent Levels Author:Chris Thomas King
“Modernism in a way, early modernism, for instance, in pictures, was turning against perspective and Europe. And all early modernism is actually from out of Europe, when you think of cubism is African, is looking at Africa, Matisse is looking at the arabesque, Oceania. Europe was the optical projection that had become photography, that had become film, that became television and it conquered the world.” ThinkingWorldWayFilmTelevisionPerspectivePhotographyEuropeInstanceProjectionModernismCubismMatisseOceania Author:David Hockney
“European films had art. And it was easy to make a European film. They didn't come from the studio system, they weren't shot in sound studios, and that's a good thing, because in the studio system those movies would never have had a chance. And since we were coming from Europe, it was natural for us to use that simple style. Small budgets, less equipment, that was just how it was.” ArtUseFilmEasySoundNaturalChanceSimpleStyleShotsEuropeGood ThingsStudiosBudgetsEquipmentSimple Style Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“When I was in Hungary in December I was looking at student films and I could not tell which ones were shot on film and which ones were shot digitally. I think that is because the filmmakers in Europe go to four years of film school and learn the techniques.” ThinkingYearsSchoolFilmFourStudentsShotsEuropeTechniqueFilmmakerFour YearsDecemberFilm SchoolHungary Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“I put my films together in Europe and it kick-starts the financing when I'm attached as an actress. It makes it easier to move forward.” TogetherFilmMovingEasierEuropeActressesMoving ForwardKicksFinancing Author:Julie Delpy
“The vast majority of people support the idea of an enlightened, modern union of countries demonstrating solidarity. Film director Wim Wenders recently summed up the problem to me very well. He said the idea of Europe has become an administration, and now people think that the administration is the idea. But that doesn't mean we should give up on the idea - it means we should change the administration.” PeopleThinkingGivingShouldWellsMeanSaidIdeasCountryProblemFilmSupportModernDirectorsGiving UpEuropeMajorityUnionsAdministrationEnlightenedSolidarityDemonstratingFilm Directors Author:Martin Schulz
“The great thing about Europe is that things have not been represented [as much]. If you open the door of a bar in Brooklyn in a film you know exactly who is the mobster, who is the nice guy, who is the drunk, who's the waitress, who's the lonely heart. If you push open the door to a bar in Antwerp or Lisbon or Rotterdam, people will talk five different languages. You don't know who's who. You don't know if that guy is a banker or a mobster.” PeopleIfsKnowsHeartDifferentFilmGuyLanguageFiveNiceDoorsEuropeLonelyBarsGreat ThingsDrunkBankersThat GuyBrooklynWaitressNice GuyDifferent LanguagesMobsterLonely HeartAntwerpRotterdam Author:Thomas Bidegain
“That's the luck we have with making films in Europe. It's still, in some ways, a virgin territory for a lot of stories. It's funny to see people in 10-gallon hats somewhere in France or Switzerland. You think, "Wow, is this real?" You do it in Wyoming and it's redundant.” PeopleThinkingWayStillsRealStoriesFilmEuropeLuckFranceHatsTerritoryWowVirginsSwitzerlandReal YouGallonsRedundantWyoming Author:Thomas Bidegain
“In Europe, where we have all these different forms of financing and cultural funds and systems like that, it's a good mixture of supporting artists to make movies. But, on the other side, everyone still wants to make money making movies. Again, even in the European film business, it's expensive to make movies.” WantStillsDifferentFilmFormArtistSidesEuropeMaking MoneyExpensiveFundMixturesFinancing Author:Baran Odar
“Feudal Europe is over, but it found its way into film culture. It found its way into postmodern painting culture, and we're all here talking about it today. It still lives. I don't believe in ghosts, but these are contemporary ghosts.” WayBelieveStillsTodayFilmCultureFoundTalkingPaintingEuropeDon't BelieveGhostContemporaryStill LifePostmodern Author:Kehinde Wiley
“At this moment, everyone is in crisis, not only in Italy but all over Europe. Only in America do they make films that are successful all over the world. In Europe, production is quite poor. We have three or four or five films, which is not enough.” WorldEnoughMomentsAmericaFilmThreePoorSuccessfulFiveFourEuropeCrisisProductionsOnly In America Author:Sophia Loren
“I never really worked in Hollywood. Some American producers came to Europe to shoot films with me, so it's a different situation... It was not my aim.” DifferentFilmSituationEuropeHollywoodAimProducers Author:Juliette Binoche
“This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America.” AmericaFilmYoungAudienceIntellectualEuropeSexualityTheatreCinema Author:Jacqueline Bisset
“Hollywood and Disneyland are the legacy of Europe's cultural imperialism. We gave them nursery rhymes and they gave back film. Televised riots are as American as Barbie/ Big Macs. Tomorrow the riots will be forgotten but Mickey mouse will still be there. Welcome to Disneyland.” StillsBigsFilmFearAtheismTomorrowEuropeHollywoodForgottenRageWelcomeLegacyMiceRhymeImperialismRiotMacsDisneylandNurseryMickeyBarbieNursery RhymesBig Mac Author:Richey Edwards
“I made a French film called "Merry Christmas" which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.” WorldMadeWarFilmPiecesEuropeChristmasWar Of The WorldsWorld War IMerryMerry Christmas Author:Diane Kruger