Liv Hewson Quotes

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There's a lot of places left to go.

Part of me wonders what it would have been like to have had my first experience of India in a normal way, rather than through the eyes of a film.

China was the first time I truly felt like an outsider. I fell in love with the process of trying to become intimate with the culture.

We're really creating a whole different kind of travel experience. One that really celebrates the different places, different cultures, the different cities and immerses you in that culture.

Filming in India was very special. The chaos, the noise, and the sensory overload was all really wonderful. It was a new world to me, and being able to capture that was incredible.

I had the urge to examine my life in another culture and move beyond what I knew.

I think that one of the main privileges of what I do, which I am just starting to learn, is to have the ability to travel all over the world and experience different cultures.

You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.

The films I enjoy seeing are those that reveal lives I was unaware of... in different cultures or whatever.

I make it my business to see or do something cultural in every place I go to. If you don't, you'll get into a state of constant despair.

Growing up in Singapore, I wasn't allowed to visit China. So when I was finally able to go there after the country began opening up to tourism in the 1990s, I found it to be utterly astounding.

It's wonderful to learn about new cultures and to be able to travel easily to so many countries.

A person can do a lot of reading and research as I have done. I went to Spain and spent a whole summer there with my family, immersing myself in the culture. But all that isn't really necessary to experience the music.

When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.

I really love travelling to places where I get to learn something new about a new group of people or a new place. Learn some history, contemplate some business ideas, and sort of get off the beaten track a little bit.

We're not just making 'Marco Polo,' we're living it. Because we traveled to Venice... Kazakhstan... into the jungles of Malaysia.

When you go visiting countries, you start reading the history of the place and you start getting into the culture, and then you have to leave. In my experience, all countries have hidden treasures.

I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.

I always spend time exploring the customs and attitudes of the countries I'm using for locations, and interviewing the people who live there. I've visited over 90 countries thus far.

But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is there.

I always like to get local music when I'm in another country.

I'm going to go traveling through Europe and see parts of the world I haven't seen. I've spent so much time in America that I want to check out the rest of the world.

It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there. We need to revive on many levels an illustrious desire to get to know the world, to learn another language, to understand and create empathy with people that live a few kilometers away from us. It's never late to do this.

I like to learn things from other cultures. I'm curious. It's exciting to be in an unknown world, in a way.

When you go out of your country and meet people, you get a wider perspective.