American Quote by Alex Horne

I just thought it could make a really cool movie. It's not that it's just a buddy comedy but it's all about two guys…

— Sean William Scott

American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.

— Tom Hooper

It's all about escapism. That's essentially what all movies are about. It's a vicarious thrill.

— Todd Phillips

We filmmakers are control freaks. For us, it's about bending the elements of a story into existence.

— Richard Linklater

Like one of those fake-smart, middlebrow TV shows, the speciousness of The Social Network is disguised by topicality. It's really a movie excusing Hollywood…

— Armond White

We didn't even think about it, you know? I used to collect laser discs, and you'd have some college professor analyzing It's a Wonderful…

— Dana Carvey

It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to…

— Andy Warhol

I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

A good movie humanizes people.

— Ethan Hawke

Basically, we [me and Evan Goldberg] started thinking about making a movie that was kind of a weed movie and action movie and had…

— Seth Rogen

This is not a football film. It's about two individuals - two good friends telling their story.

— Gale Sayers

I was brought up on American films.

— Andrew Garfield