Quotes About Culture

I grew up watching shows like 'Martin' and 'Fresh Prince' and 'Moesha,' and I was inspired by all these shows. When I was growing up, there were so many black people in TV. That's just the world I was around.

It's Marvel movies that get the big audiences.

I remember distinctly not seeing myself. I didn't see myself in black culture, white culture, mass culture.

I suppose what's so amazing about working at the National Theatre is that, because it's a subsidized theatre, you're not trying to create a product that's going to have a mass market in order to make the money back.

Massachusetts is a global community.

TV is art. It's mass art. It's accessible to the masses.

As beautiful as cinema is, it's a massive part of the problem of why we look at ourselves in the way we do.

I grew up listening to a lot of Massive Attack and Portishead.

I listen to things that are popular and try to think about it in a mathematical way.

Rap music's the only thing that ever mattered.

I try to use the Australian idiom to its maximum advantage.

Every podcast network has a different culture as far as I can tell. How they run things at Nerdist is totally different than how they run things at Earwolf is totally different than All Things Comedy or Maximum Fun or Feral Audio. And it's different if it's independent.

For me to live in England and be part of English football is the maximum of this life.

My mother knows how to cook for me. If I lived abroad, I couldn't enjoy her meals.

People don't even know the meaning of the word 'transvestite.'

I'm meant to be an animation director. That world, and the culture of stop-motion, is where I want to live. It's more my problem than Hollywood's. I'm not attuned to Hollywood.

I think we are all individuals at the end of the day. There's nothing about culture that can prescribe who you're meant to be.

I listen to a lot of medieval music.

Medieval learning was really advanced.

We live in an age of mediocrity.

I do love TV as a medium.

Television is a young person's medium.

Television is such a mediocre medium.

Music is the medium that has taken me around the world, and I would be lying if I said I could live without music.