You have the United States, and you have Mexico, and then you have this Mexican-American thing which is this third culture, which I like to call Aztlan.
I hate kitchens. I don't understand these enormous American kitchens that take up half the living room and then they just order pizza.
American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.
We have a version of Firefox for mobile devices, codenamed Fennec. That's a type of fox - South American, I think, with giant ears.
When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film.
I'm not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I'm just some schmuck kid who wrote some book.
I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
Within the soul of each Vietnam veteran there is probably something that says “Bad war, good soldier.” Only now are Americans beginning to separate the war from the warrior.
The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its serious mismanagement of the federal budget.
There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.
Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours.
No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others.
If we don't believe in Americans, who will? I do believe. I've seen it in the people of our very typical corner of the nation.
That's what I think is smart about 'Durham County.' It's not derivative of anything American. It's more in the vein of the BBC miniseries I grew up with.
I live in Santa Barbara. My wife's American, and she lived in England for 11 years and then told me she'd had enough.
The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.
It's clear price gouging... The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.
I think being a foreigner and talking about Hollywood allowed me to use some cliches and some references that an American would maybe not use.
Wisdom of the Ages: "The Pope and Congress" It looks as if confidence in the American voter to exorcise the demons in the Capitol has completely fallen through.
The economy may be complex, but Americans understand that the Wall Street banks control an outsized portion of the economy and that they have an outsized interest in their own profits.
If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice.
