Quotes About Culture

'Shantaram' is fantastic. An Australian prisoner escapes & joins the mafia in India? Sign me up. I love stuff that is based on true stories.

Music in New Orleans has always been the heartbeat that drives the city. It was that even before Katrina, and that's what we had to rely on after the storm.

I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently.

That's one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies - and the harmonies - that exist in it. And of course, some of the stories, the story songs.

Food is all about the story of a people through the ages.

In my opinion, it would be a lot better for the culture - meaning the culture of America - if there was more diversity in terms of storyline. In terms of the kind of content that you see about Americans of African descent on the screen.

God is the biggest storyteller, and when we create stories, we connect with him and with each other across cultural, religious and gender boundaries.

Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards.

I want to be a storyteller - not only of the Latin experience but of people who want to be inspired.

As long as I'm making something from my voice, from my perspective there will be Asian American content because I am the storyteller.

When I first encountered Shakespeare as a boy, I read every word this man has written. To me, he is like an African storyteller.

You get told a lot in school to tell what you know, write what you know. But what excites me about filmmaking, about being a storyteller, is being able to learn about other people, putting myself in somebody else's shoes, whether that be someone from the Dominican Republic or someone from Cuba or inner-city Brooklyn.

I come from a long line of storytellers.

Rappers were my storytellers.

I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.

Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.

I think all Latino actors want to be storytellers first. I want to be an actor first, and then I want to be Latina.

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

Each generation wants their own form of entertainment and their own form of storytelling.

As long as we are engaged in storytelling that moves the culture forward, it doesn't matter what format it is.

Compared to other forms of drama, performance art is often thought of as inaccessible and overly artsy. I prefer to think of it as storytelling, something that has been with us through the ages and a part of every culture.

I remember that - you know, I didn't receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevideo cafe, in the cafes of Montevideo. There, I received my first lessons in the art of telling stories, storytelling.

Obviously people loved 'Mystery Road', people loved the storytelling aspect of it, people liked the character.

Cinema is, of course, the great storytelling medium of modernity.