In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
How could you justify giving Holland twice the amount of money that you gave Belgium? Well, finally, I put it up to them. They said that they couldn't do it; it would destroy them. I said they had to do it. And I finally got support from Hoffman on it.
It is said, that in Holland Interest is lower than in England.
People say 'Why would you learn Dutch? Nobody speaks it. Why not French?' Even the Dutch say that to me! I say because I want to live here, I think it's only common courtesy that I speak the language.
The French have got taste.
You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules.
An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
This is a full country. I think 16 million Dutchmen are about enough.
The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.
Everybody makes a lot of money when the French come to town.
The Dutch are a very practical people.