Quotes About Culture

I had grown up thinking of movies as something to eat popcorn with. Bergman and the other European directors were the first ones to open my eyes to film as art.

Whether it's a popcorn movie or some really intellectual sociopolitical movie, I think to some degree they're all influenced by the social climate that we're living in.

Films and gaming are blurring together, and it makes for brilliant popcorn entertainment.

In 2000, Pope John Paul II canonized 120 saints of China, 87 of whom were ethnically Chinese. My home church was incredibly excited because this was the first time the Roman Catholic Church acknowledged Chinese citizens in this way.

The only thing that can ever make a Louisiana boy feel better is Popeye's.

I grew up in Louisiana. We have red beans and rice, and there's a Popeye's on every corner.

In future, if I get a chance to perform, I will go for hip hop, locking and popping. Indian is definitely not for me.

Don Cornelius did not want to see how I really danced - I was doing hip-hop, and it was foreign to people out in California. They only knew about popping and locking, so they were not keen on hip-hop dancing.

What's weird is the Hot Boys and the whole New Orleans Cash Money thing had a really big impact on the Bay when that was popping off. I don't all the way understand it. I mean, I know that they were big everywhere and had a lot of commercial success in the mid to late '90s, but they were really, really felt in the Bay Area.

I entered music at a poppy level.

As I got older, my pops tried to keep me involved with the culture by telling me the stories of the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, how he came to America, and about our family back home, because all that side of my family - my aunties, grandparents - is in Africa.

Pop concerts create an audience for Pops concerts, not an audience for classical symphonic concerts.

That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

Hong Kong movies were really popular in my generation.

I went and looked at one of these great cathedrals one day, and I was blown away by it. From there I became interested in how cathedrals were built, and from there I became interested in the society that built the medieval cathedral. It occurred to me at some point that the story of the building of a cathedral could be a great popular novel.

What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.

Pop just means popular - it can be any genre, and if it becomes popular, then it's pop music.

My clothes are very popular in Japan.

But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in.

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.

It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.

Every 16-year-old person has a love for pop in them because pop is popular.

I don't even know what is popular.

There's no difference in a lot of people's minds between good musicians and popular musicians.