America Quotes - Page 267

America is thataway, Mr. Lincoln," laughed Davis, pointing north. "You're in Mississippi now.

In America, there's more of the question, should music be political or should it just be for entertainment purposes, whereas around the world that's not even an issue. I think people just assume that music should be everything.

I've shot films in Africa. I've shot in America - English is not my language.

I've always had the sensation that people in America are always avant-garde. Very attentive to all the new innovations. But it's very specialized.

The very fact of seeking specialization is probably what makes America so great in these two hundred years. But also, the sensation that somebody who wants to understand America doesn't really need to visit it much.

We're talking a very cultivated people, but I found as cultivated as they were, they were uninformed about the personages who weren't American. They knew everything about America, but much less about other countries.

The American public is a very specialized public. The reason it is taken as a realistic film is because inside the fable, I've put that kind of reality in. And it could easily be called, instead of Once Upon a Time in America, Once Upon a Time There Was a Certain Kind of Cinema. Because it was also an homage to cinema.

I had more trouble than I had a sense of utility or satisfaction. But it served to occupy me and to keep me occupied in a field that I love - which was cinema - while I was waiting to realize the film that I wanted to do, which was Once Upon a Time in America, which took ten years of thinking and working to realize.

America is so varied and exciting that after six months, you go back and find it completely changed.

There was also the myth of the western films. But my films are borrowed not from the story of the West in America but from the story of cinema.

Women had enormous weight in America. And they still have. Because they are truly the padrone [owners, masters] of America.

I have to be honest about one thing. When I want to America, no on asked me how I was. Everyone always asked me, "How much do you make?"

America gets rock stars a little more than Canada does.

I majored in political science, and my concentration was U.S. involvement in Latin America in the 20th century.

I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times.

I said in 2008 the media is dead in America. Journalism's dead.

Is it that you hate this president or that you hate America?

As American families and businesses have been forced to tighten their belts, Washington has refused to do the same.

My focus has kind of been on teenagers, you know, and I think we've got a huge crisis right now in America, among our teens.

I still pay full tax when I work in England and the same when I work in America.

And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight?

You should ask the president what he thinks about America.

More people on unemployment benefits is not success in America, fewer people on not because we kicked them off but because they have been able to get a job in the private sector, because government got out of the way.

You see, here in America there's a reason why we celebrate the 4th of July and not April 15th because in America we celebrate our independence from the government, not our dependence on it.

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