Quotes About Culture

Parallel societies are exactly that: They exist side by side and rarely meet.

My main message is that I have a problem with the Islamicisation of our societies.

Racist societies enforce the idea of race as home by making race an inescapable fate.

Our identities really are a constant negotiation between the story we tell about ourselves and the narrative our societies like to recite.

Cuties' is universal, and it raises concerns that involve all world societies.

People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Cinema is a reflection of its own society.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.

I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.

Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.

I think football reflects our society. Our society changes. The evolution of society dictates the evolution of the game.

Art reflects society. Cinema doesn't dictate - you portray what the society demands.

My films are a reflection of the society I live in, what I see and observe.

A country is more than an economy. We're a civic society.

The pervasiveness of guns in our society is destroying America.

What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.

The role of art in society is not to resolve conflicts; rather, it is to express these conflicts and antagonisms.

I miss the silliness of the Nineties. What would society be like if 9/11 never happened? If that silliness was extended forever?

I think falling in love with an older woman is not abnormal. It happens a lot in our society, but it's just that it is not accepted with open arms.

We're in the culture business. You are constantly monitoring cultural shifts, current events, shifts in mores, things that reflect society, and, at times, we try to drive it.

That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know.