Ken Loach Quotes

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.

One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.

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.

From jazz, the blues, country and rock to Hollywood movies, culture has in many ways been our greatest export (or our most obnoxious one, depending on your point of view).

The big French movie distributors are the Trojan horse of the American cinema.

You Americans, you have no idea how much your stuff infiltrates the rest of the world!

The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.

Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that.

In Canada you grow up - we're next to the United States. We're watching whatever you're watching. We're following your news. It's obvious that we are inundated with American cultural information and political information. Whereas the opposite is not true.

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

We've had American TV shows in Britain for years and that hasn't affected our culture at all.

I think it's that thing of growing up all the time watching American movies and listening to American music. It hits you in a way that's a lot purer because you are not in that culture that you're watching.

When you start exporting ideas, philosophy, behavior, products, ways of living, it becomes an assault on the culture. Americans have to understand that.

Popular culture is inescapable in the U.S.

If there is cultural imperialism, it is definitely American.

A lot of my work reflects the incredible influence that America has had on contemporary African culture. Some of it's insidious, some of it's innocuous, some of it's invisible. It's there.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

The power which the Hellenes and even the Italians possessed, of civilizing and assimilating to themselves the nations susceptible of culture with whom they came into contact, was wholly wanting in the Phoenicians.

We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.

American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.

Every citizen in every country in the world now grows up in two nations. Their own and Hollywood.

America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture.

America's biggest export is media and I think that's a positive thing.

We have a lot of American TV in Australia. I grew up watching 'Seinfeld,' 'The Simpsons' and those prime time TV shows over the years that feature grown-ups and high school kids. We had a saturation of American voices.

'Hotel Rwanda' is an American product, not a Rwandan one, made primarily for American audiences.