Quotes About American

My mom's family was 100 percent Irish, in the American way of being Irish, and then my dad was half Irish.

I did a film called 'Nightfall,' based on Isaac Asimov life, which was directed by an American director. However it was a short film.

No, Islam did not lift American blacks out of poverty; capitalism did that.

If you read Islamic creationist literature, it's pretty much lifted from American evangelical literature.

We feel no isolation. But, having said that, I want to emphasise in particular that we do not want to go to extremes and abandon the European and American directions in our foreign economic cooperation.

In both British and American history, fervent imperialism has always coexisted with bouts of fierce isolationism.

There's no one in Israel who appreciates more than me the importance of American support for Israel.

I don't think you will meet anyone in Israel who will ever burn the American flag.

The chances of Israeli science competing with big American science are small. For almost 15 years, we had no competition.

I think generalizations of any sort are dangerous. I'll say, if that is the case - right now it's an American issue.

I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I'm gonna to do it like an Italian giallo.

I use my American Express card whenever possible because I earn Air France points, which have taken me to America in business class. I like top quality so I will pay well for an item if I think it is finely made, but I'm not extravagant.

It's funny, I started by making fake American movies, 'The Transporter' and stuff like that. I was shooting in France, but everything was in English. But then afterwards, I was looking at real French movies like the Jacques Audiard movies.

I think that James Baldwin is, for sure, one of the most important American writer/thinkers of his time... not just African-American. He singled-handedly revolutionized the political, artistic, and historical discourses about America.

I didn't understand the American fascination with the Japanese schoolgirl. No, I don't think I can, really.

There aren't many American directors here trying to direct a Japanese yakuza film. When you combine that with the fact that I don't speak much Japanese and this was an independent film I was financing myself - people were curious about what I was doing.

'Cardiac Arrest' was the first British drama to use a lot of medical jargon. 'ER' began the following year and was the first American drama to do that.

Truth of the matter is, jazz is American music. And that doesn't mean bebop. Jazz is really about improvising. All the music that's been created in America has been pretty much improvised... Whether it's hillbilly or rock n' roll for blues, it's basically jazz music... It's basically about another way of hearing what comes out of America.

I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The majesty of the American Jewish experience is in its success marrying its unique Jewish identity with the larger, liberal values of the United States. There is no need anymore to choose between assimilation and separation. We are accepted as equals.

I have one identity, and that's Israeli and Jewish. I don't view myself as an American citizen.

We haven't had an agenda for American cities probably since at least Jimmy Carter. We have left cities to fend for themselves.

It's weird, because American films in the 1930s and '40s, particularly melodramas, were made for woman, from Bette Davis to Joan Crawford to Barbara Stanwyck to Katherine Hepburn, and for some reason we've taken a step backward in this sense.

The work-family divide is the biggest issue for American women. But in some ways it's amazing how adjusted society has become to it. In the 1970s, as women began to take more jobs, society was reeling.