We're Americans. We celebrate success. We just don't want the game to be rigged.
The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.
Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it.
I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.
Concealing one's true medical condition from the voting public is a time-honored tradition of the American presidency.
This is the place where anybody - like an African American kid raised by a single mom - can be president.
I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.
When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris.
The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.
I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.
Americans wanted to settle all our difficulties with Russia and then go to the movies and drink Coke.
Carolyn Burnham: That was exactly what I needed. The royal treatment, so to speak.
Angela Hayes: Go fuck yourself, psycho!
Peg: Joe College strikes out.
Terry Fields: This is a super fine machine.
Terry Fields: Are you guys ready?
John Milner: I was a dirty bird, Carol's not grungey - she's bitchin'
[Recurring line] Patrick Bateman: I have to return some videotapes.
Luis Carruthers: Patrick? Is that you? Patrick Bateman: No Luis. It's not me. You're mistaken.
Patrick Bateman: 'Oh Africa Brave Africa'. It was... a laugh riot.
Patrick Bateman: Not quite blonde, are we? More of a dirty blonde.
