Rick Smolan Quotes

The deeper changes wrought by the end of a particular outlaw culture: something will come of that ... and it won't be what we expect.

When art has changed, it's because the world was changing.

The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.

Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.

Over the past few years, many of us have increasingly begun to question the direction and meaning of our society as it has developed over the past several centuries.

We now know how things were in the '60s and how things have changed, but I don't think we appreciate how much things have changed.

Cultural change always precedes political change.

The class barricades have been stormed by the forces of a broad culture, which is made up of clusters of individuals who have decided for themselves what they will be in society.

Indian cinema is changing not because of outside pressure but because of inside pressure. Society is changing. Obviously, ideas change because of globalization, because of the huge middle class that is mostly first generation.

It used to be said that you had to know what was happening in America because it gave us a glimpse of our future. Today, the rest of America, and after that Europe, had better heed what happens in California, for it already reveals the type of civilisation that is in store for all of us.

Cultural views often don't move at all for a very long time, but when they move they can move very fast.

… the process of social change was not merely a matter of new inventions pressing on old institutions: it was a matter of new classes displacing old.

As the 20th century unspooled, a cultural warming melted down many frozen class characteristics.

When cultural movements happen, it's so beyond your control.

I've said the election of Obama has made the hustler less relevant. People took it in a way that I was almost dismissing what I am. And I was like, 'No, it's a good thing!'

One of the things that is so striking to me about the South, especially living here now as an adult, is that I see a lot more mixed-race couples than I saw when I was growing up in the 1980s and the 1990s. I feel like living across the color lines has become something that's more expected.

In 1992, I critiqued the panic over growing family diversity. My skepticism about the doomsayers has since been proven correct.

Audiences change because life changes. Countries change geographically, climatically, socially and morally. Many things happen, and cinema, in a sense, reflects what's happening in the world.

What if the counterculture was only a stumbling beginning, rather than the best that could be hoped for?

There's just no way to stop a movement in popular culture. It's going to happen, with or without you. There's absolutely no way to stop that train.

'The Sound of Silk' will serve as a lens for larger questions about cultural identity in a global society and the potential for individuals to act as catalysts for change.

From the coffee bars of Camden to the gin joints of Norfolk - across Britain, a revolution is brewing. And no, it's not John McDonnell's bitter socialist hooch. It's a generation growing up with an entirely different view of the world - free thinking, optimistic and hungry for success.

I think culture is a very challenging thing to reverse.

All I've ever wanted to do is move the needle on popular culture.

In many ways the film business is behind what's going on culturally. We are a world that is becoming more diverse and there's no going back.