Born Quote by Rob Pilatus

I'm an American. You can't go on where you were born. If you do then John McEnroe would be a German.

— Martina Navratilova

I've often gone to start a film only to find the producers surprised to discover that I'm American.

— Alessandro Nivola

America is a magical place, and I think my job, or the job of a lot of us European filmmakers is to just hold…

— Hans Zimmer

I'm from Munich. I was born here in this town.

— Philipp Lahm

Like 'Lost in Translation,' I worked on an advertisement where a Hollywood star was doing a commercial just for Japan. The star was Hugh…

— Michael Gracey

“In America when someone asks me my nationality, I can't just say American. I have to go back generations, elaborate on there in Europe…

— Bridget Asher

I was born in Switzerland. Everyone thinks I'm Swiss, but I'm actually German. I'm from Germany. It's a small country. You don't have as…

— Baran bo Odar

“Under the ground, in Munich, Germany, two people stood and spoke in a basement. It sounds like the beginning of a joke: 'There's a…

— Markus Zusak

I'm a European, and I live there. I work in European films, and then once in a while, I make an American movie.

— Monica Bellucci

In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?

— Ken Burns

“If I'd been born in Germany, I suppose I would have been a Nazi, bopping Jews and gypsies and Poles around, leaving boots sticking…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I've just done a film in the United States. It's a thriller called 'A Crime', with Harvey Keitel, we play against each other, and…

— Emmanuelle Beart