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…

- Ben Dreyfuss

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.

- Ben Dreyfuss

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

- Ben Dreyfuss

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…

- Ben Dreyfuss

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

- Ben Dreyfuss

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

- Ben Dreyfuss

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…

- Ben Dreyfuss

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

- Ben Dreyfuss

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

- Ben Dreyfuss