Quotes About Culture

Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it.

Americans are really harsh about British people's teeth.

Saturday night at my house, I often trot out classic movies and force the urchins to watch them. There is much wailing and gnashing of teeth, but I think it's important to teach kids about American culture, and films are certainly a big part of it.

Everyone in Sweden has great hair and teeth and is clean-cut and organised.

In Cleveland, music was always a big part of my life. That's really where I cut my teeth.

We live in a culture that venerates scores. We affix numbers to how much fat is in our mochachinos, how quickly our telephones suck information from the air, how much pain we're in. Reading, too, has become a skill to quantifiably assess.

Television has been the single greatest shaper of emptiness.

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

When depicting Asian people in movies, books, and television or as historical figures, it's more important to humanize them and give them all of the dimensions of humanity, and that includes sexuality. Ascribe the human the full range of human qualities.

In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.

Contemporary art will never achieve the audience of football, pop music, or television, so I think we should stop comparing its possible area of influence to that of big mass-media events.

People want to be represented on television.

I said the screen will kill the reader, and it has: the movie screen in the beginning, the television screen, and now the coup de grace, the computer screen.

Without television, cricket would be a poorer place;the two have to coexist.

Growing up, there was this explosion of B television. 'Fresh Prince of Bel Air,' you have 'Family Matters,' 'A Different World.' I had examples - of black children, black families, black women, black men - that represented who I was.

The world in which we live is diverse, and I think television and film should reflect that.

You often forget, because you're so inside it, that television has power.

I don't even own a television. I'm proud of that.

I don't regard television as the outside world. I regard it as an artefact.

To be perfectly honest, I follow football the way I follow television. I read about it.

I humbly apologise for reality Television.

The child stars who emerged from Disney boot camp and dominated pop culture in the late '90s and '00s are not only still around but also have spawned successors who have proven even more indispensable to the business of music, movies, and television.

Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.

Having racially diverse casts on television is a more accurate depiction of the demographic of the world we live in.