Quotes About Culture

French cinema audiences usually don't express anything. Certainly not satisfaction.

I don't feel like I have to be nationalistic French because I'm afraid of losing whatever. No, no, no, no. And also I don't think we are the best.

I am Parisian. I don't love the French.

I guess, being French, I love Hollywood.

French cinema has always been very interesting, and it's still very powerful. I think it goes to show that it's great to still have a cinema that doesn't try to emulate, for example, American cinema.

I do almost all my movies in French. I dub them.

I speak French, and I grew up with French, so my English is Franglais.

It is a curious fact that the word 'essayist' showed up in English before it existed in French.

I think there is an extreme charm in the French, and actually it's their bolshiness that makes them such fun.

I am attached to the French language. I will defend the ubiquitous use of French.

I think that in France, we should do like the French people.

French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.

I am the most un-French Frenchman you will ever meet.

In my own life I'm frequently in predominantly white atmospheres.

I think we just need to have a demand for fresh and nuanced movies.

Chinese buildings are like American buildings, with big footprints. People don't care about daylight or fresh air.

I always wanted to be a Freshman because XXL is really important in the history of hip-hop. It embodies the culture.

I remember I was a freshman in high school the first time I heard OutKast.

Our culture is not this thing to be seen from a distance. We need to be embracing the friction of it all - that is where the energy is.

Back home, we watch a lot of movies, and that was never available to us. When I came to America, I was like, 'No, it's really coming out this Friday? Not three months from now?'

When we were shooting in Shreveport, me and a couple of friends went down to Lafayette, because they had a big Zydeco music festival down there. We spent two days dancing to Zydeco music, eating fried alligator... It was one of the craziest festivals I've ever been to in my life, but I loved it.

In France, the gastronomy is one of the best in the world. But when you move to England, everybody tells you to be careful about fish & chips. And avoid fried English breakfasts. I now know why.

I learned so much in Laos. I learned that fried silkworm larvae are delicious. I learned how to make ant-egg salad.

If someone said, 'You've got to eat your next two meals at American fast-food restaurants,' I would do one meal at Chipotle and one meal at Popeyes fried chicken.