Quotes About Culture

I think it's more important to write something that brings men back to reading than it is to write for people who already read. There's a reason men don't read, and it's because books don't serve men. It's time we produce books that serve men.

American Protestants do not have to believe in God because they believe in belief. That is why we have never been able to produce an interesting atheist in America.

When I grew up in Italy in the 1950s, it was still very agricultural. Food was very important; produce was very important. Everyone made their own olive oil. It took me a long time after I moved here to understand that Americans are much further away from their food.

We once turned to popular culture because it produced fantasy objects; now, we are asked to 'identify with' the fantasising subject itself.

When the faith dies, the culture it produced begins to die, then the civilization goes, and, then, the population.

I grew up watching American films, listening to American music, and it's a big contribution to the rest of the world. I mean, American jazz, for me, is the best thing culturally that America has produced.

England produced Shakespeare, and the British Empire the six-shilling novel.

Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting.

Lennon and McCartney have the best catalogue of songs ever produced. It will never be surpassed.

At Performa in New York, there are a lot of commissions, but Manchester Festival is the only festival where everything is fully produced by the festival.

Los Angeles produced the Beach Boys. Dusseldorf produced Kraftwerk. New York produced Chic. Manchester produced Joy Division.

There is nothing wrong with commercial cinema if it is made well. In fact, if you ask me, the Hindi film industry has also produced some truly outstanding works over the years.

All too often, when people think about art in the U.K., they think London. There's some really great work being produced outside of the capital city and I think it is important to stop and acknowledge that.

When I went to Japan, I was with Kashima Antlers. Very good results were produced with that team as I aimed to develop Japanese football.

The good thing about not speaking the language is you just listen. You listen to everyone, every producer, every writer.

Dr. Dre is the most influential artist and producer in hip-hop history.

We need to encourage the presence of more Asian writers and executive producers so they can fight for normalizing the casting of Asians in traditional American roles.

I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

Cape Verde produces good people.

A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.

America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture.

I think there is a chance that Indian writers in America will start producing very interesting books in the years to come.

My dream is that Participant is producing content in every language in every part of the world.