If you want to slice into America, it's pretty red, white, and blue in terms of how it goes about things, but there's a gray area there, and I've always been interested in where things are complicated.
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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
America is a place where you can be born into a low-income household but still lift yourself up, and it doesn't matter what color you are.
New York gives us a wide colour palette to cook from. We have cuisines from around the world, and that lets us pick and choose.
I recognize very much in Hopper that it does look like the United States; it looks like the 30's and my first impressions of everything, all of which I have to deal with and which gets mixed up in my work and probably gets mixed up in everybody else's work too.
All of the films that I've made are about the country I live in and grew up in... And I think if you're going to put an artist's eye to it, you're going to put a critical eye to it. I've always been interested in the gray area that exists between the black and white, or the red and blue, and that's where complexity lies.
Everywhere the sky is blue. There are a multitude of cuisines and dishes. I think of them as the languages and dialects of food.
You grew up with America on the TV, and you think you know a place before you get there, and you have this idea of it in your head.
Colour is not the issue in America; class is.
I like America's diversity and its landscapes.
If you're thinking of coming to America, this is what it's like: you've got your Comfort Inn, you've got your Best Western, and you've got your Red Lobster where you eat. Everybody's very fat, everybody's very stupid and everybody's very rude - it's not a holiday programme, it's the truth.
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