Bryan Brown Quotes

You know, every country needs another country to mock, and Australians seem to be pretty good at impersonating American people. Maybe it's because all the movies and music and TV you see there is from America, so we just have the knack for it.

We should be obliged to admit that Europe is Americanizing herself with disconcerting rapidity.

Australia is so influenced by America. It's kind of in-between the U.K. and the States.

You Americans, you have no idea how much your stuff infiltrates the rest of the world!

The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.

Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that.

When I first started writing, I was living in England and I had that uniquely English sense of sarcasm, which has definitely seemed to have left me. I am a naturalized American and my sensibility has become far more American.

I love English, though I now call it 'Anglo- American' because we no longer speak British English due to globalization and America's economic power.

One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.

Things are so much global and Americanised.

Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema.

In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.

We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.

In Canada you grow up - we're next to the United States. We're watching whatever you're watching. We're following your news. It's obvious that we are inundated with American cultural information and political information. Whereas the opposite is not true.

It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.

The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China.

We've had American TV shows in Britain for years and that hasn't affected our culture at all.

The British have slang words, as we do, but it was fun.

English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.

I don't have doctrinaire views about how we should relate to Asia. But novelists reflect the world they live in, and that world propels you, to some extent. I'm a creature of the British Empire, and of the period of transition from the Empire.

I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?

In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I'd grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People wanted to be like Americans. In contrast, when I got here, I saw prosperous middle-class American college students wanting to somehow join the Third World.

Even some of us who make movies underestimate their influence abroad. American movies sell American culture. Foreigners want to see American movies. But that's also why so many foreign governments and groups object to them.

The French view globalization as synonymous with Americanization, the cultural imperialism that has filled France with bad food, bad films, and English words.

What will remain of our cultural identity if audiovisual Europe consists of ... sitting in front of Japanese TV sets showing American programs.