Quotes About Culture

I really liked the Seattle movement.

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.

I remember, growing up, you didn't wear an England shirt. The English flag was very much - and still is, to some extent - associated with the far-right movements of the 1980s that I grew up around.

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.

Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.

That's exactly why I came into music in the first place: to be inspired by what I hear to make it something else, to make it my own. That's how culture, creativity, moves, isn't it?

Accents are interesting, because they very often inform the way a person moves.

Cinema is an art form that is designed to go across borders. And as a filmmaker, the only way I can direct a movie is when I feel close to my culture.

In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum.

'Tampopo's amazing. I think it's an absolutely fantastic movie, but I don't think it captures for me the meaning of food.

I wish I had been born 20 years earlier, so I could have been in the movie business in the 1970s.

New York just feels real to me, and not everyone is in the movie business.

We manufacture a culture in the movie business, and whatever we put out creates a dark side and a bright side, too.

In Europe, a great dancer might be on the same level as a movie star. In America, not so.

If you actually saw your favorite movie star who is also a great classical actor doing 'Romeo and Juliet,' 'Macbeth' or 'Taming of the Shrew,' it would be a great thing and a great thing for kids to get interested in language.

I'm not really enamored by movie stars.

Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.

I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies.

I was lucky that one of my first movies, 'One Million Years B.C.' was made in Europe by a British company. The Brits, and a lot of the rest of Europe, seemed to really love exotic women. The fact that I was American and exotic just made me more appealing to them.

Of course, everyone knows my story of being born in Russia and moving to the United States at 7. For a few years people would say, 'Well, she's living in the United States, but she's Russian.'

If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another.

The man on the street, he knows who Beethoven is, he knows who Mozart is.

If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you play with them Mozart, Debussy, Mendelssohn, they have a wonderful light feeling for that.

My father was always saying we were Serbs, but I didn't pay much attention.