French Film Aficionado Gifts

His films need to be viewed with a post modernist sense of irony...

"Thanks to the Oscars, we're going to be the hottest finger food this season."

Screenwriters pitch movie to studio boss: 'It's a reinterpretation of Bicycle Thieves, that classic of Italian neo-realism. We're calling it, Dude, Where's My Chopper?'

"I'll do the movie but I want to be highly compensated and highly acclaimed."

Herman Mankiewicz

Jean-Paul Sartre

Fabrique en Francais (Made in France).

Honoré de Balzac

'The secret to doing a book report is only picking books that have been made in to movies.'

"Hey grandpa, tell us more about the time you were in that Steven Spielberg movie."

Men looking at black screen, "I call it film noir"

"Let's talk film or let's not talk film - I'm easy."

"I like movies that resemble my life, so I don't feel like I'm wasting time watching a movie."

"Seth, here, is one of the best young creative compromisers in the business."

"Bloody hell!"

"...But ASIDE from that, how was your trip to France?"

The Euro-Trash Trashcan

Sign in book shop window: 'Critics agree the book is much better than the movie.'

Canadian film production

Moby Dick

"We need to make it through at least one movie, so we have something to root for during the Oscars."

'You don't want weather? Not a problem! How about sports, or maybe a nice movie? We can do that! Just put that thing down and let's talk, OK?'

'Action!...Cut!...Right, everything else is CGI'

"I'm sick of watching the same movie every day."

Arnold's first day on the job - 'What do you mean...no director!!!...and who is going to tell me what to do?'

"Spoiler alert."

'How's this new concept? Instead of a gunfight, the hero overpowers the villian with a heartfelt homily on the sanctity of family values.'

'Come quick: Rin Tin Tin is on TV again...'

'And I love the part when he finds out that it was his brother all along!'