Quotes About Culture

The Bible tries to make humans not animals the whole time. I think it's a bit of a mistake.

When you do 'Mad Fat Diary' or 'The Village,' you always learn about the particular time period, and that's always nice for an actor.

I went to New Orleans for the first time for Wild at Heart, and I kept going back to make more movies there. I've become very close to the city and part of me does feel like a New Orleanian.

I just don't care about popular culture. It looks to me pointless and superficial. If I had free time I'd rather read a 19th century novel.

I think that American people really know how to pursue fun, they really know how to have a good time. Japanese are somewhat more reserved than Americans, so I'm jealous.

When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture.

We are not getting rid of carriers any time soon. This is both because of their utility and also because of their role in Navy culture and in the defense-industrial complex. It is an academic debate.

It's overshadowed, the art. We're in a really argumentative, black-and-white-thinking culture right now. There's not a lot of time to take things in.

I came up in the '60s; that was a time when there was a revolution going on in music. Stravinsky had become a twelve-tone composer; even Aaron Copland was writing twelve-tone pieces at that time!

In Liverpool we'd only done one-hour sessions. In Hamburg we had to play for eight hours. We played very loud, bang, bang, all the time. The Germans loved it.

I never thought electronic music would get as popular in America as it has. When I first came to Vegas in 2009 for my residency - we were they only people playing electronic music at that time.

I'm a tourist, a glorified tourist. I'm not doing it to have a good time or to lie in the sun.

Every time I go to Japan and meet Capcom it is like going to see the Umbrella Corporation. You ask them things and they won't give you a straight answer about anything.

There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.

I think if you live in a country, basically you share the dominant values of a country although you may disagree on issues all the time.

You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.

The utter destruction of our culture isn't just around the corner. It has been here for some time.

Penises are literally all around me all the time, and have a lot of influence on the world, on my world.

France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.

All art at some time and in some manner becomes mass entertainment, and if it does not it dies and is forgotten.

Shibuya is a trendy part of Tokyo where young people come to meet and have a good time.

The first book was out and for the first time we were on a book tour. Being the son of an immigrant, I'd never dreamt of being on book tours. Suddenly the attention was huge.

I am super-Italian, not even European - Italian. And this is very precise. It's like houses. Over time they stabilize themselves in the terrain. I am still at the first step of a long staircase.

I watch TV all the time. Everything.