Gael Garcia Bernal Quotes

Modern culture is a tremendous force.

Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.

Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.

Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.

It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.

I think music follows the trends of the collective conscious.

Cultural background surely plays a part in shaping identity; but it does not determine identity.

Popular culture is inescapable in the U.S.

Media truly has the power to create and shift culture.

I know ideals aren't realities, but they do influence reality - social, legal, political, cultural.

I am particularly distressed when people in the public eye who influence our culture perpetuate sexism.

I'm raising kids, and so much of American culture sustains me and gives me things to think about and work on.

Politics is downstream from culture.

There are some people who would never have fallen in love if they had not heard there was such a thing.

I think we are affected by others in all kinds of ways. I do understand what it's like to wish to control the conditions under which we can be affected by other human beings, but none of us really are.

We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly.

Many people help construct our attitudes at a certain time and place.

The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare.

The requirement of conspicuous wastefulness is... present as a constraining norm selectively shaping and sustaining our sense of what is beautiful.

I am probably responsible for the odd fact that people don't seem to name their daughters Lolita any more. I have heard of young female poodles being given that name since 1956, but of no human beings.

A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces.

You will notice that what we are aiming at when we fall in love is a very strange paradox. The paradox consists of the fact that, when we fall in love, we are seeking to re-find all or some of the people to whom we were attached as children. On the other hand, we ask our beloved to correct all of the wrongs that these early parents or siblings inflicted upon us. So that love contains in it the contradiction: The attempt to return to the past and the attempt to undo the past.

Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when under age, but when of age, in purple.

Because it corresponds to a vital need, love is overvalued in our culture. It becomes a phantom - like success - carrying with it the illusion that it is a solution for all problems.

The people definitely shape the two, put stamps and classify mainstream and underground music.