English Cinema Quotes

I love 'Shaun of the Dead.'

I grew up looking at... going to the movies a lot, as much as they'd let you. I grew up in Manchester in the north of England in the '40s and '50s. I saw a lot of movies. They were all Hollywood and British movies. I didn't see a film that wasn't in English until I was 17 when I went to London to be a student.

When I make films, I work with Mike Leigh, who's the most prolific director in England.

I wouldn't say no to being in a film with Jude Law. I love English actors.

I'd love to make films in England, and I tried to. I think there's a wealth of amazing talent and astonishing writing over here; there just seems to be more of a culture of developing films than actually making them.

Something like small English films were in vogue you had something like The Crying Game and everyone piled into London and wanted to make small English movies.

I like to collect DVDs of most English films.

Kristin Scott Thomas is terrific. She has a career in France and a career in England: how cool is that? I wouldn't mind that.

Basically if you're trying to write films in England you might as well decide to hide for two years. It's just meetings with people who don't really have any money but pretend they do.

In England we only make films about the working class or the aristocracy.