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“For the most part, the American film market has become very corporatised, even independent film to a degree, and because of the corporate management mentality, they want to take the safe way.”

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Author:Anthony LaPaglia

“Making African American films are hard in Hollywood. We need to rely on a support network and bring more cohesion to different filmmakers, actors, producers etc. It's a very difficult business. There aren't a lot of Africans Americans or people of color in high positions in Hollywood that we can green-light films.”

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Author:Paula Patton

“OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of other smaller, really exciting, maybe experimental films, being paid rubbish but working with fine people, that was what I thought I was known for.”

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Author:Joely Richardson

“In the last ten years of watching films I have found that some of the foreign films I saw affected me most. One American film that stands out for me for its workmanship and artistry is 'Ratatouille.' It was an astonishing effort in filmmaking.”

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Author:Irvin Kershner

“I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.”

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Author:Ted Kotcheff

“When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.”

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Author:Baz Luhrmann

“American films are less American every day, because you have to please a world audience. There's less authenticity, so it's more accessible.”

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Author:Ang Lee

“Crash is hyper-articulate and often breathtakingly intelligent and always brazenly alive. I think it's easily the strongest American film since Clint Eastwood's Mystic River, though it is not for the fainthearted.”

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Author:David Denby

“That comes from most people having an American film model in their heads which is nothing but a total illusionary masturbatory massage.”

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Book:Peter Greenaway: Interviews

Source: Peter Greenaway: Interviews

“Don't let's ask for the moon.We have the stars.”

“Well, if you're talking about the current climate, there's a lack of content in American film because I think people are deeply confused about their emotions, and they don't regret certain aspects of their own foreign policy.”

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Author:Neil Jordan

“American films are the best films. This is a fact. Cinema is - along with Jazz - the great American art form. And cinema in a very real sense created the American identity that has been exported around the world.”

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Author:Ben Dreyfuss

“Most young people now are very vulnerable as to what the American film aficionados are going to say. They care too much about a system that has no room for them. It's really a serious issue for me, because to me it's, how do I survive beyond a film that was disgraced or praised?”

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Author:Haile Gerima

“Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are.”

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Book:On directing film

Source: On directing film

“The future of American film lies on television.”

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Author:David Hare