"America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture."

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"America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture."

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"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."

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"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."

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"Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole."

Archie Shepp, American Musician

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"I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets."

Sting, British Musician

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"I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome."

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"The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture."

Eric Allin Cornell, American Physicist

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"The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light."

Bill Griffith, American Cartoonist

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"I have no doubts that it will be a major sport-in the United States. I'm probably not going to live to see that day because Americans are a little afraid of getting interested in something at which they're not very good."

Lamar Hunt, American Entertainer

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"Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line."

Jeremy Irons, English Actor

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"I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities in the American Air Corps became very interesting to me."

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"When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies."

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"To do the writing, I have to have time to do research."

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"When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation."

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"If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know when they go see a movie that it is fiction."

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"I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can."

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"I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature."

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"War scenes are less difficult than love scenes."

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"Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total."

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"The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second."

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