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French cinema has always been very interesting, and it's still very powerful. I think it goes to show that it's great to still have a cinema that doesn't try to emulate, for example, American cinema.

— Louis Leterrier

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I grew up watching a lot of French cinema.

— J. H. Wyman

I had always studied French and was obsessed with French films. I hated the way American films always had happy endings. I liked the way French films had dark and unpleasant characters; it was much more realistic.

— Jerry Hall

All my life, I have loved and been inspired by French cinema, and as a studio head it has been my pride and joy to have the ability to bring movies to audiences around the world.

— Harvey Weinstein

If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.

— Adam McKay

Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

I'm very happy in France making movies.

— Michel Hazanavicius

Sure, I watched a lot of Hollywood movies. Maybe I've seen more Hollywood movies than French movies.

— Michel Hazanavicius

I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn't end, I'll go to a French movie. That's a betrayal of trust to me. A movie has to be complete within itself; it can't just build off the first one or play variations.

— Joss Whedon

France loves American cinema because when an American remake is successful, it makes us money to produce more French films.

— Clotilde Hesme

✗Opposing Perspectives

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

— Jean-Luc Godard