Tom Hooper Quotes

Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn't really anything else that does the job in modern terms. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously.

Culture is everything. Culture is the way we dress, the way we carry our heads, the way we walk, the way we tie our ties - it is not only the fact of writing books or building houses.

Queen Victoria did not regard art, letters, or music as in any way springing from national character: they were something quite apart, elegant decorations resembling a scarf or a bracelet, and in no way expressive of the soul of the country.

Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.

Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.

Pop culture is like our subconscious.

It's not simply that British films do well at the box office and generate revenue, it's that they provide a window to the world of what Britain and its culture is about.

Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life.

The Tower of David is important for Israel's heritage and existence because it is more than a tower, it is a symbol. It is more important than the Azrieli Towers.

When it comes to culture, I'm sort of like Nostradamus if he'd been a handsome, witty minor celebrity with a great head of hair instead of a crusty old dude from the olden days.

Culture is important. Wars are fought over culture. It's not just about folks showing up and being hoity-toity. Culture is about definition.

We need to have a view that culture has a value in itself, not just in terms of a social and economic value.

All culture, all important culture, is always linked to how people express and experience being alive.

Culture has always been more important than politics. Sometimes culture is a mirror that reflects what is; sometimes it's a search-light pointing the way to what will be.

The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.

The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.

Culture is a part of basic human nature, of deep humanity.

Look at the way sports, music and film have become driving forces of popular culture. Fashion is the fourth pillar.

Hair pieces and head dresses have always been something that's been part of my culture.

The man who speaks with primordial images, speaks with a thousand tongues.

You must understand what the Parthenon Marbles mean to us. They are our pride. They are our sacrifices. They are our noblest symbol of excellence. They are a tribute to the democratic philosophy. They are our aspirations and our name. They are the essence of Greekness.

Pop culture has none of the vibrancy that you find in the folk culture, where people speak directly to their own experience in the human condition.