Roberto Civita Quotes

When you introduce something new to a country, you want to do it right. Generally, that means you have to do it yourself.

When in Rome, I must do as the Romans do. When in America, make Bikram copyright and trademark.

The biggest lesson I've learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication.

I think that we in the West expect people to adapt to our culture very, very quickly when they come to our country. But when we go over to someone else's, I don't think we are willing to meet them halfway like we expect them to meet us. I think having cultural sensitivity is a lot more important than we realize.

I understand different cultures because I have travelled a lot.

The best reason for exposing oneself to foreign ways is to generate a sense of vitality and awareness - an interest in life which can come only when one lives through the shock of contrast and difference.

For me, the experience of being in other culture really set up a longing. When I'm traveling, things seem really sharp. You learn things ten times faster.

That is something that I always want to do when I arrive somewhere is to know about the culture of the country, about the club and make sure I know what it takes to wear the jersey.

I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.

I say the same thing that I've said for decades now, which is: don't go over to Japan trying to change it, thinking that you know better. Go there trying to understand.

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

I'm certainly curious about people. As a kid, I moved around a lot. I was raised in a lot of different places, and thanks to working in the movies, I've gotten to keep traveling. I've always been interested in other cultures and languages.

I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate.

I find it very beautiful to work in different countries because I see the mentality differences there. It is so rich, one always carries forward something.

In Europe, I am an outsider. I don't really understand anything that I am seeing. I can be welcomed into people's homes, I can be met with suspicion, I can be taken somewhere else altogether. There is always wonderment there for me, even if the person I am photographing may not see it or be aware of it.

I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.

It's always overwhelming when you come to another country and you're embraced in such a positive way.

I'd like to set a story in Australia, but I would need to feel confident my German and U.S. readers, for example, would stay with me.

When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.

In some ways England is more liberal than France, but I also find it more intrusive. But when you go abroad you have to accept the ways of where you live. I have to respect that.

China is a company of contradictions. Nothing is what it appears to be. We have to be extremely respectful when we go overseas.

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners

A man who goes into a country must comply with the ceremonies in use there.

I love being part of the Chinese scene as a businessman. That doesn't mean that there aren't short-term discomforts and adjustments.