“I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this reason that I speak candidly and sometimes critically about it.”
Johnny Depp

“Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?”
Burt Lancaster

“'High Noon' was the most un-American thing I have ever seen in my whole life. The last thing in the picture is old Coop putting the United States marshal’s badge under his foot and stepping on it. I’ll never regret having run out of this country.”
John Wayne

“I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.”
Walter Salles

“American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.”
Tom Hooper