Quotes About Culture

It's good to have a governing body to oversee matters in making of films, but you can't blame films for what is happening in society.

I listen to most everything that's out there because I need to stay aware of what's happening in the industry.

I just feel like a Filipina, a Filipino woman, and it just so happens that when I was growing up, I was very much an Australian, and I think you can be both.

I want to affect culture. I want to have my mark on everything. I give examples of people like Bill Cosby, Quincy Jones - those are the people who I look up to. The game wouldn't be the same without them. What happens in the course of 5 years isn't really important to me. I care about what they'll say about me in 50 years.

When the manager comes in he cannot say, 'This is something I want to do.' It is an environment that the manager creates and it happens over time.

I think the art fair is very much a form of urbanism. I think something really happens to the cities when such a fair happens. The city becomes an exhibition; it's amazing.

I'm definitely an American, because I grew up here. But I've lived very happily in Britain.

The French are never happy coming to London; this is an ancient and comforting enmity.

I love Punjabis. My best friends are Punjabis. They are such big-hearted people, such happy-go-lucky people that work doesn't feel like work with them.

It's important that we start conversations about changing the culture of sexual harassment and discrimination in politics, state capitols, and our larger communities with an acknowledgment of the courage of so many women who have chosen to speak up and speak out.

When women are told that sexual harassment is 'part of the job' or when assistants of both sexes enable harassing behavior, they have bought into the culture that says such behavior is not just permissible, it is a desirable expression of power.

I'm not a Bal Harbour Shops kind of guy.

Moving to France is not the hard part. Living here is more difficult. Of course there are many benefits but it's not always easy especially if you don't speak the language.

Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.

I thought it would be a good idea to look at New York with this half-European, half-native eye and really do something to get back at this city that I thought really gave me a hard time when I grew up.

People have asked me why are Australians and Brits so good at American accents, and it's quite simple. We grew up listening to the American sound on our TV. That's why American actors have a hard time with foreign accents.

I thought if we could put our hard-working culture as traders into the asset management, it will be a great combination, and we did do that.

I think Katy B encapsulates young London in a way I never could. She reps London harder than anyone song-wise since Lily Allen.

My dad's family is part British and Austrian, and my mother's family is from Goa, which is in the south of India. I looked different from everyone else, which now is such a blessing. It was harder at the beginning of my career.

I am into belly dancing. I used to only hang with comics. Now I have friends who are dancers, and my whole house has a harem feel.

I don't think the arts would have been as meaningful to me if I hadn't grown up in Harlem.

Harlem has always been the nexus of music, politics, culture, criminal figures.

We don't windsurf in Harlem.

If you've ever been to Harlem, there's always something playing on the street, and there's this energy that feels different to anywhere else in New York.