My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life.
I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.
I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.
That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they do.
Don't go on American Idol, I think you'll spend the rest of your life living it down and I think it's getting kinda scary, isn't it?
I was a banker in Morocco when I first saw 'American Graffiti.' It was before I was an actor, a melancholy time in my life, and this mood was reflected in the film.
Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.
If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.'
When I discovered that I could tune into American radio stations after dark, this was the hippest thing to me. It sort of saved my life.
I've had a terrific life, from building one company to be the second largest company in the securities industry and merging that into American Express, and becoming president of that company.
I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.
It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.
I'm a huge fan of Jessica Lange and 'American Horror Story.' I would love to work with her. She's been one of my favorite actresses for a while.
Am I Latin? Am I American? What the hell am I? I love my culture and I'm very proud of my culture.
Americans who visit Tuscany or Umbria love the landscape: the silvery olive groves, the fields of sunflowers, the vineyards, the stone houses and barns.
I'm a huge, huge fan of almost everything British. I love 'The Office' - I was a faithful follower of that show before the American version.
I learned American Sign Language in college and seemed to pick it up rather quickly. I really love to sign and wish that I had more friends to sign with.
American naturalism is what my indulgent actor side loves: a bit of Tennessee Williams, a bit of Clifford Odets, August Wilson - I would just love to tackle some of that.
Americans always ask how much I love my accent, and I don't get that - I think I sound like a school teacher.
I joke to people in the press that I realize I'm not black, I'm actually white. But I've got these roots in black American music. I love it.
Most of the time I spent in America, I was having a love affair with some American or other. I was just passing through but stayed because of these chaps.
