Harrison Ford Quotes

Without thinking too much about it in specific terms, I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed. My fundamental purpose is to interpret the typical American. I am a story teller.

I think that America has an obsession with history, really.

To the world, you are America.

I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.

I've always tried to write about America. It's very worth a writer's effort.

Characters work really well when they're reflective of the times that they're operating in.

Perhaps the most typically American place in America.

Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.

Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world.

If I had the ability to influence people all over the world just by speaking or writing, one of my objectives would be find out how America became special and then tell everybody.

Comic book heroes are an important part of our culture.

I like to talk about America. It's so mysterious.

It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

You weren't supposed to hear Elvis Presley. You weren't supposed to hear Jerry Lee Lewis. You weren't supposed to hear Robert Johnson. You weren't supposed to hear Hank Williams. And they told the story of the secret America.

You can't kill America. We're more than a nation. We're a notion. We're an idea. The American Dream. You never heard of the Afghanistani Dream have you. Except by bearded hermetic recluses with a fetish for uneducated women dressed as giant shuttlecocks.

America has had much more respect for its writers because they had to define what America was. America wasn't sure what it was.

In America many things that are interesting are seen as odd.

Those aren't the kinds of folks who represent our core American values.

Harvard has been almost as important to the American Jewish community as the pork-sausage industry.

When I hear people watched my film and then got on their own bikes and rode, whether a few miles or across America, to achieve their own goals - that excites me. It's the power of a story.

Modern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.

I don't want to be like Europe. I want to be like America.

There are many things in America worth conserving. But I am one of those conservatives who believes the most important of those things is liberty. Without liberty, without individual freedom, what is left to conserve isn't worth all that much.

The true religion of America has always been America.

Film, as any immigrant will tell you, television and movies is the way we make sense of America when we first got here.