Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes

There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences, we magnify those differences.

It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here.

There is this really old school stereotypical notion in Australia that to be Aboriginal you have to be black: anything but white or pale skinned. What 'The Sapphires' does is open up the conversation that I've been having my whole life, the fact that being indigenous isn't about the color of your skin; it's about your connection to your culture.

So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn't necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn't necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.

Mexico is becoming the northern part of Latin America, not the U.S.A.'s southern outpost.

I have always felt more at home in a culture that has nothing to do with the one I was born and brought up in.

I decided to go to Latin America because many of my students in Washington emigrated from this region and inspired me to learn more about their home countries.

I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.

The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.

I haven't met everyone from all different cultures, but I do know Aussies are very tough.

Hollywood is a wonderful machine for making big movies. In France, we make smaller and more personal films, but if things keep changing, this will disappear. The industry in Italy is practically gone. Cinecitta now is used mostly by filmmakers from others places, like Martin Scorsese.

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

Personally, I don't give a toss about French viewers. I make films for foreigners - it's a bit like Ken Loach, who's not very popular in England but has had a lot of success in France. Cinema is always an experience in a foreign body.

It's interesting: I think, as a Latino actor, the biggest challenge is being called 'Latino' because immediately, the world has a perception of what that means.

I've often gone to start a film only to find the producers surprised to discover that I'm American.

I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots all over the world, so the idea of patriotism is not very strong in me. My country is the country of Chekhov, Beethoven, Velasquez - writers I like, painters and artists I admire.

There's something that people misunderstand about screen quotas. It's not about rejecting or hating other countries' films, but about protecting our domestic film industry.

Don't get me wrong - I'm a big fan of things American - but when American people do British stuff, it's so universally dreadful.

China was the first time I truly felt like an outsider. I fell in love with the process of trying to become intimate with the culture.

I'm so used to Australian films not getting a release outside Australia.

Without knowing the language of a people, we never really know their thoughts, their feelings, and their type of character.

People and their cultures perish in isolation, but they are born and reborn in contact with other men and women, with man and woman or another culture, another creed, another race.

Since 'Y Tu Mama Tambien,' I started to spend a lot of time in the United States, and my son was born there.

For the Americans, it is not attractive to hear what the similarities are between them and the Iranian people. It is attractive to hear how different the Iranians are.