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I love filming in Britain. -- Jason Priestley
I'd like to film a British commercial; they're better than American ones. -- James Earl Jones
It's weathered many a storm, but the British film industry is, thankfully, still afloat. -- Peter Capaldi
Shooting films in Britain is always difficult, because we've never got enough money to make them. -- James McAvoy
I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people. -- Kristin Scott Thomas
British actors are renowned for being great villains in movies, like Bond films, all the rest of it. -- Luke Evans
My first British film was Gurinder Chadha's 'Bend It Like Beckham,' which was a huge international success. -- Anupam Kher
There just seems to be more acceptance now of... other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones. -- Tim Roth
People in Scotland appreciate homegrown talent, but it's getting harder and harder to get films made in Britain. -- Robert Carlyle
I'd rather do theatre and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films. -- Kate Winslet
I have always thought we should think less about the British film industry as an entity, and more about getting British talent working. -- Eric Fellner
I'm a big fan of British cinema; I think we make some unbelievably brilliant films, but they can quite often have a dark feel. -- Ed Speleers
I always wanted to work on films, and when I was starting in television in this country, in Great Britain, there really wasn't any film to be made. -- Mike Newell
It's hard to make a film in Britain. It's hard to raise money. The best stuff that is shot on film in Britain is usually shot on film for television. -- James Nesbitt
It's not simply that British films do well at the box office and generate revenue, it's that they provide a window to the world of what Britain and its culture is about. -- Gurinder Chadha
Britain is producing some of the worst films in the world. Our film industry is desperate to be part of America, and we just churn out flaccid imitations of bad films over there. -- Catherine McCormack
Viceroy' is the first British film about the Raj and the transfer of power from Britain to India made by a British Indian director. It is a British film made from an Indian perspective. -- Gurinder Chadha
For British cinema to survive, you really need a British film culture, and it's got to start down there, with young kids watching films in the cinema - so they can be transported to a different world. -- Gurinder Chadha
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
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
The problem with the British film industry is the nervousness and insecurity about - and genuflection toward - Los Angeles. -- Mike Leigh
If my British film career was a girl, then I'd been hanging around outside her apartment a little bit too long. -- Rufus Sewell
There is a whole bunch of great British actors of my age who aren't film stars or theatre actors; they're very much both. -- Harry Lloyd
A British director directed 'American Beauty,' an important film about American life, and it didn't matter. What only mattered was everyone's sensibility. -- Kevin Spacey
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
I want to be able to follow the example of those extraordinary British actresses who move effortlessly from film to TV to theatre roles. -- Cate Blanchett
I like the constant rise and fall of the British film industry. But above all, I like the workhorses who kept going no matter what. -- Peter Capaldi
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' is a British comedy-drama directed by John Madden. The film is based on the 2004 novel, 'These Foolish Things', by Deborah Moggach. -- Tena Desae
As a black actress, all I was offered in British film was the best friend role, whereas in TV I was offered a whole spectrum of parts. -- Sophie Okonedo
After college, I funded my short films with acting roles in film and TV. I learned my craft through the great opportunities British television gave me as a director. -- Justin Chadwick
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
I'd love to work in the States; I'd 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

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