Quotes About Culture

America has been central to my life.

In Bangkok's budding literary scene, Prabda Yoon sits at the centre.

Film is not a national business. It's international. And its centre will always be Hollywood.

There were no small brown kids as the centre of the children's fiction I grew up with.

I have always wanted to have a cultural centre where people can sort of have a community of artists and like-minded people sharing their work.

I went to the Actors Centre in Australia, but I never thought that I'd move to India, let alone be in Bollywood.

Damascus was the seat of the Ummayad Caliphate in the 7th and 8th centuries.

In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the 19th century.

Over centuries, we have attached too many meanings to religion.

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

Movies were very important. The art-form of the 20th century.

I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.

The music wasn't going to happen, and I realized I had read so little. I didn't know my way around any century. I was very under read.

I love the challenge of thinking about how we might approach a bowl of cereal. People are getting so involved in foodie culture and becoming more educated about their food, and yet it can be really simple to do something that's so good for you.

The United States is far too efficient. We've lost the ceremony of eating. People don't eat at home and cook meals at home.

Most people would accept that we are, to a certain extent, products of our environment.

It's easier to make art for a society at a certain point in time with an understanding of what's going on.

My parents saw certain things differently than other people.

Obviously I've been friends with loads of white people and there's certain things that happen and even though they're constantly around black people, they still don't understand. So maybe they can also educate themselves as well.

I dress up a certain way because I respect the music.

Having to look a certain way, or be a certain weight, comes from magazines, movies, the media.

We are a modern family who need to live in a certain way.

I am certainly not racist; I even like the British.

People were taking off $5,000 gold chains to wear little $10 leather medallions that represented peace because that's what Public Enemy was about.