Anthony McCarten Quotes

Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.

I'm always going to be a New Zealand fighter. I'm a Kiwi, of course, and I've still got my New Zealand passport.

I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music.

My identity comprises of more than just my faith. I am a proud Muslim, but I am also a liberal, a Briton, a Pakistani, a Londoner, a father, a product of the globalised world who speaks English, Arabic and Urdu.

You know, I don't think of myself as anything like a 'global citizen' or anything of the sort. I am just a Nigerian who's comfortable in other places.

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

You have to go through a mental and emotional process to recognize who you really are. I finally recognized that I cannot be defined by one country.

I'm 50% Asian actually, so yes I was born in Paris but I feel more international than French so I can't talk about French women.

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.

But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director.

By reshaping or decorating our outer selves, we express our inner sense of self: 'I like that' becomes 'I'm like that.'

I see myself as British, and I want to be celebrated by Britain.

I don't feel that I'm strictly Danish; I don't feel that my sense of humor is strictly Danish or my human sensibility is strictly Danish.

The coming of age of Canadian culture may not depend on our ability to protect it at home, but to project it on the world’s stage.

How is it that the country that invented Hollywood and Madison Avenue allowed such a destructive and parodied image of itself to become the intellectual coin of the realm overseas?

When you first leave Uganda for Europe you think, ‘At last, I'm free to do what I want’. But when you arrive there, you become an African for the first time, in a sense. Because you are responsible for Somalia! They call you up and say, ‘What do you think about Somalia?’ And you can't say, ‘I'm Ugandan, I have nothing to say about Somalia’. You have this big, huge chunk of experience to defend --and you will defend it, because nobody else is defending it. You become some sort of an ambassador and for the first time you become conscious of what Africa means.

Like many foreign students when they go abroad, I was instantly thrust into a position of having to explain and defend my country. That is a very common predicament.

I don't really want the kind of Englishness that I have represented.

I have two passports because I have to have at least one, and I really don't know how I define myself. And I feel that as I get older, I feel very fortunate to have, on paper, a dual nationality.

How we present ourselves matters a lot, and that's every American, not just at the senior levels.

I'm not British. I'm not American. I'm not French. Whatever thing they practise, that is their business. I am an African. I am Rwandese.

I'll always see myself as a British filmmaker, powerfully so.

When my hair is picked out, my whole aura is picked out, like, 'See this, see me.'

I don't want people abroad to see India like it's shown in a film like 'Slumdog Millionaire.' We are at par with the world.

I feel French, beyond the passport.