#eric

I did not want 'Battleship' to be perceived as an American war film. I wanted to do everything I could to make the film accessible to a global audience. It felt like bringing an alien component to the film would help take the American jingoism out of it. ↗

— Peter Berg

#alien #american #audience #bringing #component

Truth is, we offered it to Tom Hanks, which pretty much every movie in America does, but Tom passed. Billy Bob said that Hanks recently called and said he's voting for all of us for Oscars, he loved the film. ↗

— Peter Berg

#billy #bob #called #does #every

Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap. ↗

— Daniel Berrigan

#anyway #because #death #horribly #i

The adoring crowds and overwhelming Democratic support in the 2008 election was based largely on joy at jettisoning Bush and the appeal of electing a superbly qualified charismatic African American leader. ↗

— Mary Frances Berry

#african #african american #american #appeal #based

It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not. ↗

— Donald Berwick

#believed #best #care #correct #guess

In America, they shoot budgets and schedules, and they don't shoot films any more. There's more opportunity in Europe to make films that at least have a purity of intent. ↗

— Paul Bettany

#any #budgets #europe #films #intent

It's weird, because usually if you're British and you go to America you play baddies; but I play naughty people here and goodies in America. ↗

— Paul Bettany

#baddies #because #british #go #here

The fact that in America bread lasts so long. You buy bread, and then it's bread forever - it's Forever Bread! ↗

— Paul Bettany

#bread #buy #fact #forever #lasts

It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane. ↗

— Margaret Anderson

#american writer #hopelessly #rarely #sane #see

There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#been #cruel #destroy #different #even