Quotes About Culture

If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

While I enjoy spending time in L.A., Britain is my home.

Change occurs slowly. Very often a legal change might take place but the cultural shift required to really accept its spirit lingers in the wings for decades.

The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.

You could feel America starting to ease up a little bit on racism, against blacks in certain pockets, and then suddenly The Cosby Show bubbled up and it was the right time for it.

At that time, when I started, in the '50s, cinema was very classical in its aims.

Culture in its higher forms is a delicate plant which depends on a complicated set of conditions and is wont to flourish only in a few places at any given time.

In the United States there's not a lot of people interested in foreign language films. Every time, it's more difficult for foreign language films to survive here.

I think we live in a time where people are just insane on the subject of how they look.

We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.

You were doing a TV show - you don't realise that you're also making social commentary at the same time.

I don't think the idea of homosexuality is really taboo any more. Our culture is evolving. This is an exciting time to be living.

I know of no culture in the world at present or any time in the past that has not been heavily involved with one or more psychoactive substances.

We Scots have a fierce pride in the things we do that others can never appreciate. I am the British No. 1, but I would prefer to be the British No. 1 from Scotland every time.

I like to go back to Chinese film-making from time to time. I don't think I can make Chinese films back to back; it's such a big effort. I'd have to take a very long break.

When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time.

The most wonderful time to be in the art world was in the sixties, because it wasn't a business - there was no business of doing art.

The numbers of distinct human societies or nations, when our race is twice its present age, may be far greater than the total number of all the men who have ever lived up to the present time.

I've never seen a movie in Hebrew about Jesus. I have three kids, I don't have enough time to watch TV.

Here's the problem: we are living in a time when the act of reading is changing. The nature of a reader's attention is changing. The capacity for deep literary engagement is changing.

This week I've travelled more than 15,000 miles from America to China to Burma to Australia. I have no idea what time it is right now.

The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.

Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.

I would love us to bring back our Juedo-Christian values and begin to teach those things, at a time other than a political election.