Quotes About Culture

The South is just a dark place, man.

I decided that in Wakanda, the royal family would have extremely dark complexions, like so black they're blue. My attitude was, because the royal family is dark, the darker you are, the more you're considered royal.

In Afghan culture, you don't date - you marry. Even talking to boys before marriage brings great shame to your family.

I've never dated a Jewish woman.

My parents are conservative. They really weren't in support of us dating before marriage.

'In the Pines' is a very old song dating back to slavery. Lead Belly made it popular.

My daughter was born in the States, and she went into the educational system here.

Stuart Davis has more to do with what the United States is like than Hopper.

Chavez Ravine is the dawn of Chicano consciousness.

The 'Dead' films allow me to talk about things that a drama, say, won't. 'Dawn Of The Dead,' which was set in a shopping mall, is on one level about consumerism; 'Land Of The Dead' is a response to Bush.

In this day and age, everybody has the cameras out for everyone.

Safety is not a retrofit; it's been in our DNA since day one.

I've always wanted to be in comedy... growing up with Asian parents and not seeing yourself represented in media - it was always just a daydream.

Back in the days of Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Davis, beauty wasn't the be-all and end-all it is today.

I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.

India has in fact raced ahead, in ways that are more dazzling and more confusing than America is.

I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.

I think country music is Lynyrd Skynyrd. I think a lot of the country music is what we do, but I don't think rock & roll is dead at all.

Growing up, I was always involved in the deaf community.

I think we really do need deaf people out there writing their own shows.

'Dear Society' really is my letter to society where I express the anguish I've been caused from such an image-based industry and culture we live in.

Mohan No Masalo' is a play very dear to me.

We live in a culture built on debt, so we are encouraged to have no self control.

Waiving debts corrupts the credit culture.