Philip Pullman Quotes

There's always something fishy about the French.

All we talk about is 'Islamic terrorism.' If the two words are associated for long enough it's obviously going to have an effect on how people think about Muslims.

Maybe it's because I'm English, but in terms of how people perceive us I only pick up on the negative side of it.

There seems to be this sense among even well-meaning Americans that Africa is this black hole of murder and mutilation that can never be fixed, no matter what aid is brought in.

The way people see Africa is mostly dark.

Look, people have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don't care where it is, when they look at me it's not about my intelligence. It's who can I beat up.

When I was growing up, it was so embarrassing to be from Jersey.

Americans who have travelled and who have English friends know we are not necessarily all baddies, but I think that seeing us being so incessantly nasty on screen has a drip, drip, drip effect on the rest of them.

Isn’t it the case that foreigners always want money?

France has been mired in people's minds for years. In reality, our children are taught that they have every reason to criticize her, to see only the darkest historical aspects.

NASCAR - everybody thinks redneck, Confederate flags, racists. And I hate it. I hate it because I know NASCAR is so much more.

I don't think grime has ever been respected; it's not seen as a nice sound.

I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.

It's a very weird cultural perception that if you're fat you're dumb, that you're lazy or a loser. Clearly, those are the preconditions for fatness. You're a failure, because only a lazy person, only a dumb person, would allow themselves to get into this situation. It's appalling that this is the mindset. People generally treat fat people like we don't know anything about anything. It's incredibly demeaning. And incredibly frustrating.

France? I don't want to be anti-French but there isn't a more unattractive group of people on the streets.

Never, dear gods. Never mess with mortals.

The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world

You can't trust a vampire, trust me

Because all bad little vampires see me in the end

Believe in angels? Then believe in vampires. Believe in me. There are worse things on earth.

In America, the word art has become like the word adultery. It's this big scarlet letter. When you say you're an artist, people are like, "Ugh."

There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation.

When you ask me what I'm afraid of, I'd say I still go to see ghost movies when I get a chance or some sort of supernatural being, but it doesn't scare me as it scared me when I was a child.

To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.

The Irish are the damnedest race. They put so much emphasis on so many wrong things.