Cultural Specificity Quotes

Corn and bean people, I'm afraid, have extremely specialized minds.

Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages - the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in Christ's divinity - are central to Christian faith, while others are more culturally specific and may be modified to accommodate modern life.

If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.

I tend not to use the humor which would only apply to Koreans, or which would only affect the Koreans, as much as I can.

I think a lot of the time people assume that their values are universal. And they don't understand which aspects of their values are actually universal and which aspects are very specific.

I try to represent specific experiences of specific characters, and that's all I want to try to do. I don't ever try to think about representing a culture, because its impossible, and someone will fault you. And it just doesn't interest me.

I don't want to exclusively direct white films, or black films. I want to have a choice.

The history of a culture can be determined by its untranslatable words.

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.

Each period of a civilisation creates an art that is specific in it and which we will never see reborn. To try and revive the principles of art of past centuries can lead only to the production of stillborn works.

A lot of British comedy feels foreign rather than feeling universal.

All the clothes in my closet are Oakland, California, clothes. You can't wear those anywhere else. The barometric pressure drops and then where are you?

I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.

A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.

People have to identify with their own stories, with their own lives, so a movie belongs to a country and to a culture. Sometimes we can share, but it's very rare.

Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.

I understand and accept that for the people of Munich, only the treble will do.

What can she possibly teach you, twenty seven names for tears?

Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not be the case for non-Indians.

In Greek, we do not use just one word for love. We have many words that are specific to each type of love.

The Internet has become a bunch of interlinked but linguistically distinct and culturally specific spaces. There's some interface between them, but there's a lot less than there was years back when we were sort of pretending that this was one great global space.

When I write, I don't translate for white readers.... Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If I'm specific, and I don't overexplain, then anyone can overhear me.

I wanted Luke Cage to very much be an African American superhero rather than a superhero that happens to be black. I felt it was important to give him that cultural grounding but also show that it doesn't make him an obtuse or one-sided character.

Any time one seeks to produce for a larger public one inevitably has to drop material that would only be understood by a particular group.