Quotes About Culture

In many ways the film business is behind what's going on culturally. We are a world that is becoming more diverse and there's no going back.

In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance.

Many have asked me, 'Why have a film festival in the middle of a war?' But they have it backwards. The question is, 'Why have a war in the middle of a film festival?'

The Punjabi film industry is fairly new and needs all the support it can get.

I live in Australia, and I am Australian, and because I grew up in an era where we didn't have a film industry, and now we do, it's just really exciting for me to be able to say that I work in my own culture in a medium that I find fascinating.

I would be stupid to say no to Bollywood. It is the biggest film industry in our country.

Film industry people don't read books.

Kollywood is my parent film industry. It was here that I was born as an actress and grew as an artist.

But in the Indian film industry, from the moment a child is born, he is taught music, he is taken for classical classes.

I love music and I think the Indian film industry is known for its music.

My father is the son of a farmer so its a little difficult for me to make him understand the fashion and the film industry.

I love filming in New York. I love New York movies, too. I just like it when people can take New York and make it their own, because there are so many different New Yorks.

That whole experience of filming in Canada was one to remember.

Filming in London is brilliant.

Maybe, as a Chinese woman, I was never told I would be a filmmaker, so I didn't have the ego set up.

A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.

I came out to Hollywood when I was just 18, and my dad, he was really into Hollywood and theater and art, and I guess growing up, he exposed me to a lot of culture, and I just started making Super-8 films in high school and decided I wanted to be a filmmaker.

As a filmmaker, you realize that places have character based on their history as much as a face does or an actor does.

I'll always see myself as a British filmmaker, powerfully so.

I think of myself as a cultural filmmaker.

We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.

I was brought up on American films.

Entertainment and escapism - those are the bigger money-making films today.

I can't leave Punjabi films and will make it a point to act in at least one film a year there.