Religion doesn't play any part in my life in terms of how I live my life. But I don't think I've ever gone through a day in my life without hearing someone say the word 'Jew' or saying it myself.
The ministry of culture is nowhere, but cultural life is everywhere.
I'm so voracious with books, movies, TV, and I'm always interested in the way that different cultural values are presented or, in their absence, are present.
Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies. They've never found a society that did not have it.
Last time I checked, there were no Americans at all in Renaissance art.
I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there's a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life. It's more important to confirm the least sincere. The clouds get enough attention as it is.
A couple of years after I arrived in Hollywood, everything that was Latino was fashionable, and years after, my thought is that we're not fashionable anymore. We're here to stay.
Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it.
Prague is not rife in Asian culture.
Gay Africans must speak up and let everyone know they are there, they have always been there, and that they are not going away.
I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
There aren't many Asian players in Europe or the Premier League, so that's more attention for me.
If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.
An invention or new combination can be successful only if all if the elements necessary for the recombination are present in the culture.
