Admirable Quote by Stella Benson

We get the impression through film and TV that Americans are violent gangsters with guns or upper-middle-class people in romcoms. I really liked the…

— David Jason

The Americans invaded a country without understanding what eight years of a war with Iran had meant, how that traumatized Iraq. They didn't appreciate…

— Anthony Shadid

America became a special source of attraction to people who were fleeing the aftereffects of the 30 Years War and the religious persecution that…

— Mitch Horowitz

Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.

— Jacques Delors

There's something about the openness of the American people. Yes, we have our faults, but deep down, there's a goodness. America doesn't want to…

— Jerry Springer

And just as your beautiful skyscrapers were destroyed and caused your grief, beautiful buildings and precious homes crumbled over their owners in Lebanon, Palestine,…

— Saddam Hussein

But the whole history of America is quite different from Europe. People went there to get away from the intolerance and constraints of life…

— Margaret Thatcher

Americans don't understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They're extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which entertain superbly. But they very…

— Peter Greenaway

America always seemed to me this foreign land that I imagined I could escape to if I needed to get away - and I…

— Andrew Garfield

The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to…

— Eric Hoffer

More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for…

— Gertrude Stein