Quotes About Culture

The New Zealand culture and nature is such that we find it very difficult to celebrate creative achievement. In order to get New Zealanders' respect you have to dominate the world like Peter Jackson has done. He is absolutely revered.

While living in New Zealand, I usually made or found Korean food nearby, so when coming back to Korea it was just like coming back home.

Every time I go back to New Zealand I live with my Nan, and it is the sweetest thing. I don't know if she fully understood how much you are catered for on set, so she'd send me to work with like, pavlovas and lemon drizzle cakes and smoked snapper.

Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.

It's hard to tell why something touches a zeitgeist and when that same show doesn't in other places.

'SNL' came out in the '70s. It's a different zeitgeist. It's hard to re-create it, just as it would be hard to do a black-and-white noir film now. The culture's different.

To some degree, we're all thinking about the same things. It's the zeitgeist. The trick, in a way, as a writer, is to hope that your interests in some sense link up with the culture around you.

Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.

I'm trying to bring social games into the zeitgeist.

We are part of the zeitgeist, and we are communicating in a human, real way.

Football, like boxing, will never go away, just occupy a different role in the American zeitgeist.

Use the word 'zeitgeist' as often as possible. Ideally, you want to find words that sound familiar but people don't really know their definitions: 'zeitgeist,' 'bildungsroman,' 'doppelganger' - better yet, anything Latin. But avoid 'paradigm.' It's so 1994. If you say the word 'paradigm,' everybody knows you're a poser.

You never know what will happen. There is a thing called zeitgeist. You have to hit it.

For a movie - any movie - to work, all the bread has to fall jelly side up; everything has to go right. You have to hit the zeitgeist.

I have a direct hand in the queer zeitgeist, and what I'm putting out there has to be something I'm proud of.

I really just like acting. I'm not always aware of what is hip and what is popular and what is zeitgeist.

If you don't appeal to kids, to the zeitgeist, you get thrown on the scrapheap.

There are some people who have helped to advance me and other girls, but the fashion industry is always behind popular culture. They think they understand the zeitgeist. They don't know anything about the zeitgeist.

I think comics are really part of The Zeitgeist. They reflect back to us the issues that we're concerned about in the time they are written.

Podcasts immersed me in colloquial English and put me back in the American zeitgeist.

I have a little antennae, and even when I'm trying not to be, I'm connected with the bloody zeitgeist.

Touring can get really hard if you're not hitting some fashionable zeitgeist.

Hip-hop at its zenith insists on thinking and dancing simultaneously. In fact, it sees them as synonymous.

If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and the Rolling Stones because they're always on the radio.