Pop culture is the scaffold we all carry around with us.
Laistry....I can't even say that. What would you call them in English?" "Canadians.
In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely to be asked, 'Where were you when you first read 'The Catcher In The Rye?'
I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.
Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand.
You have to learn the language of Hamlet.
I'm one of those pesky Brits.
Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
Ill give you an idea of how Jewish Mel Brooks is: Thats a nose job.
When Arnold Schwarzenegger was pronouncing it 'Cal-LEE-fornia,' he was right - he just didn't realize he was accidentally speaking Spanish.
I will say it's great - that Method Man - Cliff Smith - plays a rapper in a laundromat who is working out some lyrics sort of to the rhythm of a washing machine. And something about hip-hop culture and hip-hop is the ability to use current language and slang and reference details of life is very, very strong for me.
I've been on camels before, lumbering slowly through the desert - not hugely exciting, but I enjoyed the 'Lawrence of Arabia' vibe.
If I see a now-28-year-old woman coming up to me, she's probably thinking of 'Juno' because she watched it with her parents when she was 18 years old.
Seppuku is Japanese for ritual suicide. I thought, What a cute name for a coat.
Very few people have actually read Freud, but everyone seems prepared to talk about him in that Woody Allen way. To read Freud is not as much fun.
It's not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.
The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.
Artwork, films, TV - it's always informed my work, no matter what I'm working on.
Sometimes that's the only way I exist, talking to people through pop culture.
People constantly make pop-culture references. That's why it's called popular culture, because people are aware of it and reference it constantly.
I have a massive head of hair: it's a Jew 'fro. It's living and kicking.
Well, I'm trilingual myself. I am, I know how to speak Spanish, English, obviously, and I speak pretty good Ebonics.
It's all about the vibes. That's why it's called 'Vibras' in Spanish.
I'm proud to say I've never listened to that 'Gangnam Style.'
I think the first time I watched 'Aladdin' was when I was still in Egypt, because I was born in Cairo.
