Quotes About Culture

Pretty much every society, every culture in the world has some version of the Arthur legend, so everybody knows it; certainly in the western world, everybody knows King Arthur, but nobody knows what happens next.

Action roles - or any role - should go to the best guy for the job. People obsess about nationality. Hollywood and America might be the hub for pop culture and cinema for the Western world, but that shouldn't suggest that all the roles should go to young American men.

How we live our lives in the Western world has impacts on the rest of the world.

What I really took in in India was that people - even in the slums - were happy with what they'd got. That's something we're not good at in the Western world.

Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World.

The Western world is having an identity crisis.

I am very happy to help share the great treasure trove of Japanese content with the western world.

War stories, westerns, spy stories are all accepted as respectable because they are read by men. It is only women's light reading which is derided.

American popular culture has long been marked by an absence of empathy for American Indians. Westerns doubled as a campaign against so-called savages in a way that desensitized us to the savages we'd become.

I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.

In the John Wayne movies, the Indians were savages that were trying to scalp you. That culture has really suffered because of the stereotype you see in those westerns.

Star Trek' ushered in the end of the Westerns. Then the canvas switched to the sci-fi canvas.

I love Westerns. They're a unique creation of American mythology.

We're not nearly as violent as the westerns.

When I was growing up in the '60s I would have thought that westerns would last forever.

I am not a fan of westerns particularly.

I really liked the Mariachi singing in Westerns.

I was raised on Westerns. They were part of what going into the movies was.

I used to love American Westerns, growing up in Germany.

There are very few Westerns that have ever made really giant money.

When I used to watch Westerns, I could admire the craft, but I never really loved them; they never spoke to me. Maybe because I'm first-generation American, I'm a woman, and I just didn't see myself reflected.

Westminster is a piece of this city's energy, something the contemporary world has forgotten.

I always thought millennials are going westward, and they probably won't understand vernacular poetry.

Europeans have it better than the Americans. The Americans work too hard. The balance is out of whack. Europe's hung onto a little bit more of living a life and then working as well.