Martin Garrix Quotes

The audiences in the U.K. like me more than in America.

Ultimately, only audiences decide what's a franchise.

The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.

Americans don't like European movies.

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.

I regard myself as a man without charm in a country of charmers.

Europeans don't seem to have the groupie mentality.

Let's be careful when we start comparing American to European tolerance because there isn't necessarily a lot of European tolerance.

World opinion is not the same thing as your own [country's] public opinion.

When something is not liked by people, you cannot make it run, however big actor or producer you may be. The audience has to make it a hit. The power is in the hands of the public.

The audience determines whether they still want to watch you or not.

In the U.S.A., the fans are passionate and are willing to believe in your character.

First off, I think nudity is taken differently in America, though they did make a fuss in England, too.

Far less envy in America than in France.

An Englishman, methinks,--not to speak of other European nations,--habitually regards himself merely as a constituent part of theEnglish nation; he is a member of the royal regiment of Englishmen, and is proud of his company, as he has reason to be proud of it. But an American--one who has made tolerable use of his opportunities--cares, comparatively, little about such things, and is advantageously nearer to the primitive and the ultimate condition of man in these respects.

Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it.

American patriotism is generally something that amuses Europeans, I suppose because children look idiotic saluting the flag and because the constitution contains so many cracks through which the lawyers may creep.

There's no nation under the sun can beat the English for ill-politeness: for my part, I hate the very sight of them; and so I shall only just visit a person of quality or two of my particular acquaintance, and then I shall go back again to France.

Thinking that other people might be better than you is what makes you Canadian, not American.

When you look at belief in such things - as do you go to heaven, is there a devil - we have more in common with (Muslin countries) Turkey and Iran and Syria than we do with European nations and Canada and nations that, yes, I would consider more enlightened that us.

Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American by telling him something about himself which is equally true about every human being on the face of the globe. He at once resents this as a disparagement and an assertion on my part that people in other parts of the globe are not like that, and are loftily superior to such weaknesses.

I try not to read newspapers when I have a movie coming out, but I guess I'm not immune to public opinion. I'm hurt by it.

I'm standing up for the U.S. But it's hard when Russians don't have any respect for the current leadership.

People love America. Sometimes they don't like the decisions made by America, but I don't think you want a president who tries to become popular and does the wrong thing.