Ben Dreyfuss quotes
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“American films are the best films. This is a fact. Cinema is - along with Jazz - the great American art form. And cinema in a very real sense created the American identity that has been exported around the world.”
-- Ben DreyfussSource : "We Love America, and You Should, Too". James West and Ben Dreyfuss conversation, www.motherjones.com. July 3, 2015.
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“Blue jeans and Hollywood and rock & roll won the cold war.”
-- Ben DreyfussSource : "We Love America, and You Should, Too". Interview With James West, Ben Dreyfuss, www.motherjones.com. July 3, 2015.
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“British films are all "room with a view and a staircase and a pond."”
-- Ben DreyfussSource : "We Love America, and You Should, Too". Interview With James West, Ben Dreyfuss, www.motherjones.com. July 3, 2015.
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“Nationality was - and is - far less a divide than age... because "everything is global, man!"”
-- Ben DreyfussSource : "We Love America, and You Should, Too". Interview With James West, Ben Dreyfuss, www.motherjones.com. July 3, 2015.
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“We're a leader sure, but still a member of the global community. And that's true and important and when America acts like its worst self on the global stage is when we forget that.”
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“Nietzsche said that everyone tells themselves the story of their life. That's true about countries, too. We're constantly telling ourselves the American story.”
-- Ben DreyfussSource : "We Love America, and You Should, Too". Interview With James West, Ben Dreyfuss, www.motherjones.com. July 3, 2015.
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“The story of America is necessarily one of progress because if it's not than it's a stale story where we have not risen above Klansmen.”
-- Ben DreyfussSource : "We Love America, and You Should, Too". Interview with James West, Ben Dreyfuss, www.motherjones.com. July 3, 2015.
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“Other people had strived for freedom and promise and ratatatata but the Constitution [of USA] was the first time we codified it aspirationally and wrote it down and put it up on a wall and said, "this is us." If your father was a cobbler, and his father was a cobbler, and his father was a cobbler, you don't have to be a cobbler.”
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“I love the bullshit morning shows. They're so stupid but I love them.”
-- Ben DreyfussSource : "We Love America, and You Should, Too". Interview with James West and Ben Dreyfuss, www.motherjones.com. July 3, 2015.
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