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- Nov 07, 2020
American Film Quotes
What makes a film distinctly American.
One filmmaker describes writing a very American film just weeks after the September 11 attacks — a real historical anchor, not a stylistic device. Others compare American film's ambitions to Russian and Italian cinema.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Night Watch' itself is a very Russian movie. It's impossible to imagine this kind of movie somewhere else: a movie with a depressing ending, a lot of inexplicable storylines, strange characters. It's a Russian reflection of American film culture.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly don't want to be in Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean.
- Director
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- Nov 07, 2020
I graduated from the American Film Institute in 2010, where I studied as a director, and came out with a few features I really wanted to make.
- Management
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always feel that crime films are about capitalism because it is a genre where it is perfectly acceptable for all the characters to be motivated by the desire for money. In some ways, the crime film is the most honest American film because it portrays Americans as I experience a lot of them, in Hollywood, as being very concerned with money.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020