Quotes About Culture

One of our problems is the culture of Brazil which focuses on men's football. Of course we would like to change that. Maybe one day we will have a strong competitive league instead of our women footballers always having to play abroad.

If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.

I started my career in an era when footballers were different. There was a different culture.

I don't think where they live is important to footballers.

In America, I think most actors wish they were rock stars, but I think in England most people wish they were footballers.

I'm from Chicago, so you know we come from juking and footwork.

Our films have the ability to tell global audiences who we are, and this is something the government should feel compelled to protect. My film, 'Bend it Like Beckham,' for example, would not have been made without the backing and support of the U.K. Film Council.

I like the elitism of the art world. I think art for the people is a terrible idea.

What makes a good festival, above all, is the audience. It feels disconnected when it's meant to bring in people from elsewhere and not meant for the people who actually live there.

I always wanted to go to Cuba growing up. It was this fascinating, forbidden country that seemed to have a lot of politics and folklore and history behind it.

The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.

If you're African American, you are forced into making different choices, in a lot of cases, than you are as a white person.

The food we call soul food is slave food. We were forced to eat it.

I joke that I came out of my mother with chopsticks in my hands. But one of my earliest memories is of my dad forcing me to learn to eat with chopsticks.

My forefathers were from Punjab and so were my parents before they shifted to Delhi. And let me make this very clear - I am not a South Indian.

Growing up as Chinese-American, as someone who experienced racism, questions of 'otherness' are always at the forefront of my mind.

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

This is still a big barrier for me and it is for a lot of foreign actors.

In general, I almost always watch foreign films.

I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign.

Saying that all documentaries are the same is like saying all foreign films are the same.

The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.

It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.

When I go to a foreign country I want to explore and get lost, discover the real place.