Judi Shekoni Quotes

Being a part of 'Sex and the City' was like being at the center of the universe - it was extraordinary.

Having a hit is nice, having some success, but when you move popular culture, that's a high.

It's hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time.

I'm somebody who's really contributed to culture. Popular culture.

It's just amazing to do something that's part of a pop culture phenomenon.

I think it's always important for academics to study popular culture, even if the thing they are studying is idiotic. If it's successful or made a dent in culture, then it is worthy of study to find out why.

I feel like I'm changing pop culture.

On reflection, some things do super well because they hit with the time. Some things do super well because they are able to activate a kind of echo chamber or bandwagon or cascade - they didn't particularly hit with the time. Some things are just too astonishingly good to not hit the top. Those three explanations, with respect to the Star Wars phenomenon, seem to me all to pass the plausibility test, and to explore them, with respect to Star Wars, I think casts light not just on the saga of our time, but also on everything about our culture.

People constantly make pop-culture references. That's why it's called popular culture, because people are aware of it and reference it constantly.

I wouldn't be surprised if some day, they put the Simpsons in the Smithsonian. It's become part of our culture, those characters.

I don't think 'Cocktail' was a perfect critical success, but it touched a vein in our culture.

I am recognized a lot for 'Master of None.' It seems like that show really touched a cultural nerve in a good way.

In a very real sense, I represent pop culture in an iconic way. It's been very good to me, so anything I can do to help the fans to tumble along - it's good.

Understand me, Hollywood miniseries are very popular in England. But British miniseries make a tremendous mark on the national consciousness. They become part of the national culture and mythology... at least for a time.

Funnily enough, 'Shooting Stars,' that stupid little panel show, is the most influential thing we've done.

'Baahubali' gave me something that's really huge.

Culture is so much faster and so much more effective than anything else. If you go on a march, you march for a couple hours and it might be on the news that night, but if it happens culturally, it happens forever. Everywhere in the world, that TV show is being played. Someone is downloading it illegally. It's blowing someone else's mind. Culture marches so quickly, and it's a language we all understand.

Television has been very good to me. I grew up on it, and it had quite an impact on me. I'm entertaining opportunities that are coming my way.

'Upstream Color' in particular, it's got to infect culture at some level in order to have a life of its own. Then it'll be judged, and it'll either live or it won't by its own merit, and history will decide whether it's relevant however long into the future. I think that's more than enough to hope for.

It's much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won't keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don't know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we've got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, 'Is this it? Are we still relevant?'

Everybody loves a hit. There is nothing as fun as making a cultural splash with a movie.

They say you can do honest, sincere work for decades, but you're given in general a 10-year period when what you do touches the zeitgeist - when you're relevant. And I'm aware of that, and I don't want my time to go by.

I think 'The West Wing' hit at a moment in time that was just right for that show.

It's sensational to be a part of a series that takes on a life of its own.

'Sherlock' is one of the biggest things I will do, ever - we could never have predicted that level of insanity around the series.