Chairman Quote by Ken Bates

The American people are not cowardly. But, living in prosperous isolation, they have been the spoiled children of modern history.

— Herman Wouk

Well, if you're talking about the current climate, there's a lack of content in American film because I think people are deeply confused about…

— Neil Jordan

The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.

— Ben Hecht

I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies.

— Elmer Bernstein

“I think the biggest disservice to the American people was the denial by the networks to air video of the beheading of Daniel Pearl,…

— Brigitte Gabriel

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I think there's a growing courage among the younger generation of American writers. Because of the more superficial treatment of characters taking place in…

— Mohsin Hamid

When Scorsese shoots a violent scene, it's very uncomfortable - it's not like watching 'Rambo.'

— Gerard Way

People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American.

— David Sedaris

We will never know the extent of the damage movies are doing to us, but movie art, it appears, thrives on moral chaos. When…

— Pauline Kael

It's very easy to make a movie that confirms the worst in us.

— Judge Reinhold

Fortunately for themselves and the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come…

— Coventry Patmore