I wanted to do a political film that is as nonpartisan as…

I really wanted to make a nonpolitical political film. I wanted something that folks in red states and blue states could look at and…

— Paul Haggis

“The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French.”

— Mark Twain

It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to…

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I first read 'An American Tragedy' in college, and in my entire life I had never read anything so painful.

— Robert Gottlieb

My story is the American dream that my parents fled Cuba for.

— Perez Hilton

There has never been an American tragedy. There have only been great failures.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The story of the Underground Railroad is the story of American heroes, and who doesn't want to hear a story about American heroes?

— Misha Green

“American Tragedy: The Inside Story of the Simpson Defense,”

— Mike Gilbert

That experience of losing home, longing for home, that yearning for meaning and rootedness and identity in a floating world, it's what often makes…

— Andrew Lam

An American tragedy in which we all have played a part.

— Gerald R. Ford

Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in…

— Joan Didion

There is an American tragedy in which we all have played a part.

— Gerald R. Ford

My story is the American Dream, a hundred percent.

— Jeremy Scott

The story of American pop music is the story of failure. The blues, country music, it's not the story of success. People don't win;…

— Ry Cooder

There is a problem in America. An Irish or Polish American can write a story and it's an American story. When a Black American…

— Gloria Naylor