Whit Stillman Quotes

I just wanted it to be American.

I love Northampton. As exciting and glamorous as New York can be, I'm always really relieved to get back there.

I'm an American, and always will be. I happen to love that big, awkward, sprawling country very much - and its big, awkward, sprawling people.

After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside.

Actually it's great to be an American. I love my country.

I truly appreciate the special qualities that America and American national myths offer me.

I would be very happy to go to America. America is where I was raised and that's exactly what I want.

In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?

I like America, and I think probably the American people like me.

I am an American in every fiber of my body and in every heartbeat.

I'm so in love with the United States. Not as a patriot. I'm in love with America like it's my first girlfriend. The geography, the people, the smell, the touch, the taste, the gas stations. I'm madly in love with America.

I'm as American as Chevrolet.

For most of my life, the U.S. was never anything more than vacation memories.

At times, I feel America is something that I can actually put my arms around, more than a land mass and a Constitution, something far more containable and understandable. I don't exactly know what it is, but at these times I feel completely woven into it.

Americans, perhaps more than most people, have pondered the question of who they are and what their country is.

Like my fellow citizens in Hawaii, I am a proud American.

For me, coming to the national team is like coming home.

I think, at the end of the day, we're Americans: that's what we are, and we believe in America.

Ain't that America, home of the free? Little pink houses for you and me.

There's no question I am an idealist, which is another way of saying 'I am an American.'

Whenever people in that part of the world asked Patterson about the wonders of America, the possibilities and the hope of America, Patterson would say that it was a good and fine place but all the Americans were running it into the ground and that it would be a far better place if it had no Americans.

I see America has infused you with the optimism that has made her so great

We are Americans, and the future belongs to us.

To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.

I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think precisely because I wasn't born into it.