Quotes About Culture

When I think of a hit, I think of Madonna.

Madrid and London are great.

The Mafia exists in the American imagination because we want it to exist.

I always tell everyone wrestling is like the mafia, once you get in, you can't get out.

Italian-Americans are not the Mafia.

Yeah, I like Three Six Mafia and stuff like that.

'Ebony' has been more than a magazine; it is a movement.

As far as magazines, I'll read 'GQ' to see where men's fashion is, but that's really kind of it.

Sometimes I'm able to buy magazines like the GQ.

The main thing my bookcase says about me is that I'm not French.

I see social media mainly just talked about as if it has just changed us technologically and in terms of data. I think it has changed absolutely everything. It has changed truth, it has changed culture. It has certainly changed the way that we relate to each other and in a very short amount of time.

I consider 'Dope' a part of the new mainstream.

I'll put it to you like this: You can only go as mainstream as people will let you go.

Mainstream movies used to be more adventurous because people went to them.

Black people are not often considered mainstream.

I'm just trying to bring the sound from Atlanta over to the mainstream radio in a way that everybody can enjoy.

If you start as a Christian artist trying to be mainstream, you're done from the beginning.

Where I live, the majority of men are married to women their own age.

Move beyond the educated elite, and the great majority in most countries outside Europe don't speak English.

Usually I try to represent my community and my culture the best that I can, but I go about every day just trying to represent my family. I'm just trying to make a difference out in the world. I don't even look at, necessarily, just the Latin community, I'm looking at everything in general.

I don't go out without make up. I'm a woman, you know.

We are what make up society.

We're making the music that the people are asking us for.

I think I'm a very American director, but I probably should have been making movies somewhere around 1976. I never left the mainstream of American movies; the American mainstream left me.