Henry Hyde Quotes

America had one idea attached to its brand. We presented ourselves as the world's last superpower. And that was the world's worst branding idea.

Entertainment is one of America's greatest exports. And the stories that we tell about people inform the world about how to think about people.

In today's world, America's soft power is commonly thought to reside in the global popularity of Hollywood movies, Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Starbucks.

I have found that many other countries will buy off on anything American. As much as they hate us, they want to be us more than anything.

You grew up with America on the TV, and you think you know a place before you get there, and you have this idea of it in your head.

There is not a single international foreign TV channel that is doing something other than promotion of the values of the country that it is broadcasting from.

Everyone has seen photographs of Mexicans wearing those big sombreros. When you come to Mexico, the astonishing thing is, nobody wears these hats at all.

If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.

It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.

Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash it completely.

I think it is important to help our country's image outside of Spain.

Even some of us who make movies underestimate their influence abroad. American movies sell American culture. Foreigners want to see American movies. But that's also why so many foreign governments and groups object to them.

I took the decision to stop her from going to the U.S. myself. I took this decision in the best national interest of Pakistan because I truly believed that the invitation would have tarnished Pakistan's international image rather than help improve the lot of women folk in Pakistan or elsewhere in the world. I believe there was a strong ulterior intent of maligning Pakistan by vested interests

The image of one country and its people amongst peoples of another country is largely created and sustained by the media.

The truth of television is that what people see, they believe.

The presentation of an issue can no longer be controlled.

You may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise our imperfections.

American academia has a plethora of departments of Islamic Studies funded by Islamic governments, and geared to generating a positive image of their religion and culture … In America this is how things seem to work. If you pay for the chair then you pay for your image.

My family is not so different from the rest of America. I think people love to see that, 'Oh, just because she's on television and in Hollywood, I can still relate to her.'

Culture is this thing that exists apart from our real life but is something we all have tacitly agreed to in America. And what film and television do, particularly in this country, is lay out the characters involved in this invisible agreement and dictate who and what can participate.

In 'National Geographic,' you always saw pictures of tribal Africa. And here I am, sitting in Nairobi in our suburban house, watching TV and thinking, 'Why is it always going to be these tribal people 'that are the ambassadors of our image?

'America has no culture!' is a phrase that we've all heard many times in our lives. As is often the case, a lie repeated often enough becomes an assumed truth (kind of like the tall tale of Janeane Garofalo being a comedian).

My only experience with American things is through movies.

People in the East get a very skewed sense of America as this enormously rapaciously sexual place, this place where you have rappers and you have Donald Trump and things like that, which leads to a lot of confusion.

If Hollywood and Bollywood were how we all lived our lives, that would surprise me. And yet it's often the way our cultures are conveyed, isn't it?