France Quotes - Page 9

Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out are his press conferences, because he's so brilliant

I like France quite a lot, and I like Italy.

It is not really our country so much is the problem, it's sort of the parasitic relationship that Canada, and France, and other countries have towards us.

In some ways England is more liberal than France, but I also find it more intrusive. But when you go abroad you have to accept the ways of where you live. I have to respect that.

The energy is still similar because I saw some old footage of us when we were in France that they'd dredged up out of God knows where and I was like, the energy is still there.

In France, you can sell a lot, but nobody outside of France ever hears of it.

If the only obstacle to the renewal and modernization of France is a choice of personnel, I am completely convinced that the president will make the right choice. What is at stake is not Alain Juppe but France.

It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.

I'm the only Mauritanian filmmaker so it wouldn't make sense to make a film in France. I could shoot outside of my own country if the story was something that called for it. Africa really has to be the reason for me to make a new film.

I want to take as the canvas for my next picture the entire surface of France.

American films, it's a money-making industry. And in France, you can find great respect for cinema as art.

I was sent successively to schools in France, Italy and Bavaria, and this erratic education was a great help afterwards.

France is great because she is France.

Being nationalistic in France has nothing in common with being patriotic in America.

Now the new things happening in France don't interest me.

Oh, in France you can't defame an idea, only a person.

When I became a man, I put away childish things and got more elaborate and expensive childish things from France and Japan.

France will always be a great nation.

Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.

Goddess was made in my home in France. The material retained an integrity whit it would have lost in Los Angeles studio.

Polemical debates happen all the time in France.

I was lucky to live 10 years in France, so I learned how to eat and drink there.

All monarchs I hate, and the thrones they sit on, From the hector of France to the cully of Britain.

I like to cook. I would probably go to culinary school in France if I had time.

France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures.