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I think 'The Americans' is exceptional on every level.

Most Americans are very cool people.

I know very few Americans, though I like the way they think. They think big.

I think Americans are wonderful film actors - the best in the world - but they are a very contemporary race and they look forward all the time.

There's a physicality and confidence to Americans; they're very present. That's something I enjoy being around because it rubs off on you.

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

I've always felt that Americans are very in the moment. There's not so much melancholia and mystery as there is in France. Everything must be understood. Everything must be analyzed.

I'm an American first, and I think that's how most people are.

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.

It may be the optimist in me, but I think America has a uniquely powerful and capacious glue internally. The American identity has always been ethnically and religiously neutral, so within one generation you have Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Jamaican-Americans - they feel American. It's a huge success story.