Francis Alys Quotes

I think I am kind of put on this Earth to speak of being between worlds in my films.

The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and other areas. What one had to give was not considered inferior to what one received.

In terms of negotiating a career - I've always grown up being an insider and an outsider to different worlds, across different classes and cultures, so I have always naturally liked making films or music that puts things in unexpected places.

I'm married to an American, so I guess that has changed my perspective on the subjects I can write about.

Cinema is an art form that is designed to go across borders. And as a filmmaker, the only way I can direct a movie is when I feel close to my culture.

I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live.

I'll say this, I'm no stranger to working with a foreign cast, foreign directors, that sort of thing. I love it, because I think that when you have people from different countries, it sort of brings everyone together, it's more of a worldly film.

When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway.

I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.

I consider myself more of an international artist than I do a one-territory artist, which I think is a blessing.

People in the Middle East may consider the U.S. an evil hegemony that has tainted their culture, but when I look at the growth of racial and ethnic tolerance and understanding in my generation in the U.S., and see those sentiments make it around the world, it makes me feel proud.

The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.

My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I was born in Katmandu, lived there until I was eight, and then moved to Australia with my mother and father. So yeah, I'm very mixed up, been to many different schools.

I like a lot of international people. Julie Taymore, the American director - she's one of the most exciting directors I've seen.

Growing up where I grew up in Queens, you have the United Nations all around you.

One of the benefits of working outside the U.K. is that I don't have to keep fielding media/politicians' enquiries about 'Britishness' and its ills.

I don't think art is bound by language or country.

I've found just the right amount of balance in my life. I'm this pop artist in America, but I'm also Malaysian. And I'm also Muslim.

I've always been attracted to multicultural music. It's where the world is going.

If I can still have Hollywood and a piece of Bollywood, I will take it.

I grew up in a unique environment where I was immersed in both Japanese and American cultures equally.

I grew up influenced by different cultures, sounds, feelings, emotions, and I want Premiere Classe to be a representation of that.

There's a cultural difference between India and the rest of the world.