Harold Bloom Quotes

The BBC fulfils a wonderful cultural function. Maybe the problem is that it feels it needs to be everything to everybody.

Shakespeare is repeated around the world in different languages, just because it's good storytelling.

'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.

At the roots, people are still people. That's why Shakespeare is so popular no matter what the language.

There are very few people who are Asian who have the kind of global reach that I have, not just with Asians but with non-Asians. I've worked hard for what my name represents, my brand, not just in Britain but around the world.

That's what was so amazing about 'Mulan.' Here is this story with all Chinese characters, and yet so many people related to her character and loved the story. So I really think as long as you have a good story that relates to a lot of people, it doesn't matter what ethnicity it is.

Also, the times have changed, the Punjabi cinema is growing. Movies and songs are being made in such a manner that even a non-Punjabi can relate to them.

Our message has always transcended borders and cultures and is central to who we are as a brand.

I think about Shakespeare. Because there have been hundreds of variations of Shakespeare's plays since they've been written, and I believe it's because they're important. They're still relevant today. 'Roots' is still relevant today. The idea that we shouldn't tell this story again is very strange to me.

I was not grown up in the U.S., nor in Japan. In order to create a video game that people around the globe can enjoy and relate to, I can't draw things deeply rooted in the local culture that I'm not familiar with. That's why we are not doing games about football or samurai.

Shakespeare is global - of course he can be shared.

I am not concerned about my foreign audience.

I think what Hollywood is learning at large is that there is profitability in stories that are culturally specific and that you can only address the universal through the specific.

It's hard to tell why something touches a zeitgeist and when that same show doesn't in other places.

I definitely think an on-screen experience is universal, in a way.

I want to try to have as many people as possible interested in my content, so it needs to go across language barriers.

It's crazy how a whole lot of African artists work. Big respect to everyone that does it, but I have not heard anything that really cuts across. We're trying to do that.

I want to take that step, being a Latin girl, and doing my Spanish music, but I want to go global. International.

I believe that art can make relevant and progressive contributions to culture and society.

Latin music is universal.

What I love about my audience is it's extremely diverse as far as the ethnicities and the ages that show up.

I think I'm very fortunate to have a pan-Indian appeal.

I think it's about the feeling more than a language. And I think that we and every culture in the world has to keep their own language just to bring something else, something different, and show a different vision of the world, actually. And that's why I'm trying to keep my language.

'Hairspray' has never been irrelevant, which is, in some ways, heartbreaking.

This is more in regards to celebrities. What we've got to understand is that we are the influencers of the hip-hop culture, the black culture. We are the way out, you feel what I'm sayin'? As far as who we look to and where we get stuff from - hip-hop culture is influencing the world, really, but especially the black communities.