Quotes About Culture

I think I really produce my best work in Iran.

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

Some of the greatest artists did their best work when they got political.

I don't think that because I am Hispanic I should therefore do Hispanic work.

I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to be this, this, and this.

When you work in a different language you are not so attached to the words.

Italy to me is like the mean mother. Whatever I do, it's never good enough. People say I'm the queen of Cannes, but in Italy I get turned down for work.

If anything I think postmodernism has the least impact on my work.

How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That's a really really really large and complex set of skills. A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.

My modus operandi has always been understatement and that just doesn't really work in pop.

As a model, you really get to work everywhere in the world. You get a little bit of this, a little bit of that.

You never know when I might decide to work in a Bollywood film and do one of those dance numbers with the whole crew in the backdrop.

I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there.

In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died.

When you come to Venice, you do special work.

In America they like my spicy TV alter ego, probably because there were a lot of Italians and Hispanics in the country, but the real L.A. life is a hard-working one.

I'm interested in making works for museums in a way that make the space feel domestic, and I'm always thinking about how this work will be part of someone's daily life.

I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.

Immigrants in Norway must learn Norwegian. The same should Spaniards in Spain do, if they want to work with Norwegians.

I'd like to work on putting art programs back in schools.

All throughout my work, even in the United States, I have worked with the greater Cambodian community.

Japan is very much a TV-centered entertainment industry. So, when you talk about big stars in Japan, generally they are people who are on television. I work mostly in movies.

While my work is usually about the Igbo woman experience, there are many aspects of my female characters that women everywhere can and do relate to.

In my work, I participate in the things that I critique. I satirize the things that I love and know well and find problematic.