Jeremy Thomas Quotes

Jeremy Thomas — British Producer born on July 26, 1949,

Jeremy Jack Thomas, CBE is a British film producer, founder of the Recorded Picture Company. He produced Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor, which won the 1988 Academy Award for Best Picture. In 2006 he received a European Film Award for Outstanding European Achievement in World Cinema. His father was director Ralph Thomas, while his uncle Gerald Thomas directed all of the films in the Carry on franchise... (wikipedia)

I'm not a Little Englander. Historically, British people have always been travellers. I look in the world as one place. You have to think in a global sense. Cinema is a global endeavour. My roots are in England but my endeavours are worldwide.

I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.

My advice to American filmmakers is to marry a European. I'm not kidding. Otherwise they don't qualify for international co-production treaties.

What I'm looking for is a self-promoting film; a movie which immediately gets people's imagination is something I can promote - a project which writes its own publicity.

Jeremy Thomas Quotes

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