Quotes About Culture

I am not an expert on Chinese science fiction. I probably know more than anyone else in the West, but that doesn't actually mean I am an expert.

I'm getting to be an expert in finding hairdressers in foreign cities.

It's hard to explain why I like Europe so much.

I do a lot of explaining of where I'm from to Americans.

I was born in the Chinese year of the rooster, so maybe that explains my affinity with chickens.

All art is exploitation.

I wanted to explore black culture, and I wanted that culture to be a revelation.

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

I love romance films, especially between people of color, because we don't really explore that enough. I would love to do that.

I wanted to explore Korean-American characters. And 'Columbus' did address that. The father-son dynamic felt very real to me.

I don't relate to what is seen as 'Arab culture.' I relate to what I explore myself, what is around me.

The white explorers had been my heroes. The Aborigines, I thought they were real savages. That was what I'd been taught and that's what I believed.

I've discovered my Jewishness late in life. And I've really enjoyed exploring that world.

When I was growing up, there were just the three channels, so as a nation we all sat down to the same meal at the end of the day. Now there's been this explosion.

The '60s is such an explosive period. It was very interesting for me because I grew up in Canada, and obviously, I know some American history because I've lived here for many years, and even in Canada, that does permeate.

America's biggest export is media and I think that's a positive thing.

One of California's largest exports for royalties is creative content.

I got exposed to art-house cinema and foreign films. I was from L.A., so it was a film culture that I didn't know about.

I was lucky enough to be exposed to film, art, literature, culture, and then told, 'Yes, you can do that, too.' It's not something that everybody's circumstances allow for.

I come from the Bronx, so I was exposed to every type of music you can think of.

I think it's interesting for people to be exposed to ballet in areas they wouldn't necessarily expect to see it.

When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.

What I really like is that Chicago is a big city: it has a large market, and you are exposed to everything, like shows and plays.

I had been exposed to classical music my whole life; even before I was born.