Quotes About Culture

My first job in the States was as a junior fashion editor at 'Harper's Bazaar,' which I enjoyed, but not for all that long because I was fired by the editor in chief, who told me that I was too 'European.'

I found out a lot of stuff through MTV, and I didn't even have cable, I just saw it at friends' houses. But my culture in junior high was totally influenced by it.

In my junior year, I saw 'Zorba the Greek' with Anthony Quinn, and I was transported by it. I wanted to live, laugh, travel.

Electronic books are junk.

Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that.

Film fests are an opportunity to see different kinds of films that you usually don't get to watch. When I'm part of a jury, then I get to judge films, but otherwise I attend festivals to watch two or three films a day and network with a gathering of cinema lovers from all over.

If you go back to 'Pretty Fly,' it was a very popish song, but there was a satirical side to it, and I think that's cool. I like the idea that it's making people think just a little bit.

I was raised Catholic. Not just a little bit Catholic, like my wife, Catherine. When she was young, many Catholics in France already barely went to church, except for the big three: baptism, marriage, and funeral. And only the middle one was by choice.

We have a curious relationship with 'funny' in the U.K. We love to laugh, but we also think that making people laugh is just a little bit second-tier, especially in a literary context.

I'm caught up probably just as much in the consumer culture as the next person.

Sci-fi is just as much about social science as technology.

I think Pac is one of those artists that generations on generations know who this guy is, as an artist, as an activist, as an actor - entertainer across the board. I think the new generations of entertainers and artists can be influenced by him just as much as people in the '90s.

If you took some of the behavior that you see in the fashion world and put it anywhere else, it would just be embarrassing.

Nothing's ever allowed to just be entertaining. We have to talk about it.

Here in Denmark, you can easily just be left alone. This is my 'hood, and people leave me alone; it's nice.

In America, I can just be glamorous, which is lovely. People are happy and accepting of exactly what it is I do.

I used to go to those dance circles when I was a kid. When break dancing was first popular in the '80s. I would be in Boston, or I'd head up to New York, and I would stand in those circles, and I would just be blown away.

A car isn't a classic just because it's old. To be a classic, a car has to tell us something of its time.

Just because you're a luxury brand doesn't mean you have to have an attitude.

Just because my parents left Ramannagudem does not mean that I do not hail from Telangana.

People have made sure of that, that you can't shock anybody anymore. It's not just because of movies and TV. It's because of what's happening in the world.

Hard rock will always be hard rock, but you don't really know what is rock - and what isn't - anymore. I don't consider a lot of the pop things I hear on the radio to be rock n' roll. It's just kind of fragmented.

My goal has always been to just kind of show how my family, we might be a different culture, but we're completely like everybody else.

Being from South Louisiana, we're just kind of rootsy.