Other people had strived for freedom and promise and ratatatata but the Constitution [of USA] was the first time we codified it aspirationally and wr….

British films are all "room with a view and a staircase and a pond.".

We're a leader sure, but still a member of the global community. And that's true and important and when America acts like its worst self on the globa….

Nietzsche said that everyone tells themselves the story of their life. That's true about countries, too. We're constantly telling ourselves the Ameri….

Nationality was - and is - far less a divide than age... because "everything is global, man!".

The story of America is necessarily one of progress because if it's not than it's a stale story where we have not risen above Klansmen..

Blue jeans and Hollywood and rock & roll won the cold war..

American films are the best films. This is a fact. Cinema is - along with Jazz - the great American art form. And cinema in a very real sense created….

I love the bullshit morning shows. They're so stupid but I love them..