Andrzej Wajda Quotes

You Americans, you have no idea how much your stuff infiltrates 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.

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

The film business is just one of our verticals. We have wanted for some time to make inroads into the English language market, because I think that over time such films can cross over into the international market.

Our leaders increasingly see fit to lecture the ethnic minorities on the need to integrate, including of course the need to speak English. What about the need, though, for Britain to integrate with the rest of the world?

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

Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world.

You're a smaller fish in the U.S. There's just so many more TV shows, and actors, and actresses. Where as in the U.K. you're in a much smaller market there.

English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market.

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

I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.

The French view globalization as synonymous with Americanization, the cultural imperialism that has filled France with bad food, bad films, and English words.

It is a myth that most people throughout the world hate America. They hate the American government and the American military …. They love American culture—they have made it the world’s culture.

The issue of American world cultural dominance is moot. All the international debates on the issue seem to be held in English.

The way cinema has grown I think, doesn't matter if its Hindi or South. People watch all languages.

If there is cultural imperialism, it is definitely American.

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).

Sometimes I wonder how my life would have worked out if my books had been translated into English sooner, because English is the language that's spoken worldwide, and when a book appears in English it is made universal, it becomes a global publication.

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

No matter where you come from, if you sing in English, you can cross over to the world.

Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment.'

Because English is the universal language. No matter where you come from, if you sing in English, you can cross over to the world.

After working on 'Europa,' I found it incredibly freeing to speak English in a film, so it kind of sparked an interest in me as an artist to improve my acting.

There's something really admirable about French culture and an attraction in how independent it is from our own. So, it's odd that in other countries that are very American-influenced - who seem to care more about the Oscars than anyone here does - there's both anti-Americanism and also too much America.

I want to take that step, being a Latin girl, and doing my Spanish music, but I want to go global. International.