British Film Quotes

• It's weathered many a storm, but the British film industry is, thankfully, still afloat.

  Peter Capaldi

  Storm, Film, British

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• ¡Se supone que sólo debes volar las malditas puertas!

  Michael Caine

  Blow, Doors, Radio News

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• People say, "How do you get into the British film industry?" There is no British film industry, there are just people making films and finding their own way. It's not like in the States where there are studios and there's an actual infrastructure to it; there's just nothing here. You make it from scratch a lot of the time.

  Ben Wheatley

  People, Scratches, Way

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I became the chair of the British Film Institute, I didn't understand how much of my time would be taken up with trying to make a case for the British Film Institute: what it's for, why it exists, why it needs its money.

  Anthony Minghella

  Taken, Trying, Would Be

  "Abbas Kiarostami". Guardian interview at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

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• I'd rather do theater and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.

  Kate Winslet

  Moving, Usa, Roles

  "Kate Winslet: Uncommon Sense". movieline.com. January 1, 1996.

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• British films are all "room with a view and a staircase and a pond."

  Ben Dreyfuss

  Views, Rooms, Ponds

  "We Love America, and You Should, Too". Interview With James West, Ben Dreyfuss, www.motherjones.com. July 3, 2015.

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• A lot of the reasons that I'm resistant to making films in the U.S. have nothing to do with not doing a film in Hollywood, but rather to do with what I'm committed to working on in the U.K. I feel very committed to the British film industry and infrastructure.

  Mike Leigh

  Hollywood, Film, Reason

  Entrevista con Chloe Veltman, www.believermag.com. Marzo/abril de 2009.

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• The problem with the British film industry is the nervousness and insecurity about - and genuflection toward - Los Angeles.

  Mike Leigh

  Insecurity, Problem, Film

  Entrevista con Chloe Veltman, www.believermag.com. Marzo/abril de 2009.

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• Quiero decir que Filth es la mejor película británica desde Trainspotting. Puede que incluso sea mejor. Sigo viéndola junto con Trainspotting para intentar decidir cuál es la mejor. No puedo separarlas.

  Irvine Welsh

  Mean, Work Out, Trainspotting

  Fuente: thequietus.com

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• I think it's important that we have a new batch of British film-makers that aren't doing the same old stuff. And that includes me.

  Noel Clarke

  Thinking, Important, Stuff

  "Biografía/Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• I think the British industry is set up to support British film, if we make films that enable them to support it. If you don't make a commercial film, distributors can't get behind it. If they don't get behind it, the film doesn't do well.

  Noel Clarke

  Thinking, Support, Film

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• Londres existe normalmente en un estado de bypass blanqueador. Está el contexto artístico de "Blow Up" y "Performance" y todas las películas británicas de los sesenta y setenta con las que crecí, porque crecí mucho con el cine británico.

  William Monahan

  Crecer, Golpe, Londres

  Fuente: collider.com

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• It wasn't just British gangster films that really did for me as a kid, personally, it was British films in general.

  William Monahan

  Kids, Film, British

  Fuente: collider.com

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• I'm somebody who is very, very proud to have been a part of the British film industry all my life and to have kind of been involved with a very important piece of British film history.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Film History, Important, Proud

  Fuente: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I can't always be making "British films". Why should we be making films about corsets and horses and girls learning to drive when Americans send over an event movie and make five or 10 million?

  Noel Clarke

  Girl, Horse, Events

  "Noel Clarke: 'The films that I've written and directed aren't necessarily the kind I like watching'". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2010.

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• Id love to work in the States; Id love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play. But I do love British film as well.

  Laura Carmichael

  Play, Scripts, Film

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• I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Class, People, Film

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• As a black actress, all I was offered in British film was the best friend role, whereas in television, I was offered a whole spectrum of parts.

  Sophie Okonedo

  Black, Roles, Actresses

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I built up a knowledge of 1960s and '70s British films because my dad used to work nights, and I'd sit up with my mum and watch films - 'How I Won the War' and the films of Richard Lester, Karel Reisz and John Schlesinger.

  Nick Moran

  Dad, War, Night

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Rupert Everett

  Wall, Italian, Years

  "I wouldn't advise any actor thinking of his career to come out" by Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2009.

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• I don't care to analyze acting. On the other hand there is a fascination because distributors are putting out British films. You get films here with great performances you'll never see again. Why compare. We should go after the businessmen.

  Tim Roth

  Hands, Acting, Fascination

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• There just seems to be more acceptance now of other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.

  Tim Roth

  Acceptance, Kind, Film

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• Los cineastas deben mantenerse fieles a sus principios y no transigir nunca. La industria cinematográfica británica está experimentando un auténtico renacimiento, pero existe el peligro de que nos convirtamos en siervos coloniales de Hollywood. Debemos mantener nuestra propia integridad.

  Mike Leigh

  Integridad, Real, Principios

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