African American history is really American history because African Americans really helped build this country.
When people ask me why I'm amazed at what Barack Obama has accomplished, I tell them it's not because of what most of America and the world sees and knows of his history. It's because I witnessed what I can only describe as a bizarre turn of events t...
September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.
I make movies for me and posterity. I'm more scared of history than I am of the studio.
I populated 'The Bourne Identity' with real characters from American history, specifically characters from the Iran-Contra affair, which my father ran the investigation of. But at the heart of it was a fictional character.
I would also argue... that we are, by inclination and in terms of our history, we are small 'l' liberals, we Canadians.
I want to write for history, not for the moment.
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.
You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.
I do not speak Hebrew, but I understand that it has no word for 'history.' The closest word for it is memory.
History is information. Memory is part of your identity.
In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions.
Both 'Mabo' and 'The Sapphires' have been significant roles because it's about my people. They are celebratory stories, on top of allowing people to understand our history.
Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.
In high school, I began to dig my way into Ethiopian history, and began to understand myself as a young man formed by multiple narratives.
History does influence our lives - every moment. We never sort of live our lives in a linear fashion. We always have these memories and these images from our past that sometimes we're not even aware of, and they sort of shape who we are.
If I had a choice as to my perfect career, I would make a couple of films a year and then concentrate on natural history.
They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
Jerry Bruckheimer really is an executive producer, who obviously is the most successful producer in the history of film and television.
I've always been a big consumer of American journalism over the years and had an interest in the history of it and of the press in America; how it has changed.
