Andrzej Wajda Quotes

Multiculturalism may well be our saviour, wresting us out from the straitjacket of our history, thrusting the old continent into an environment where other ethnicities, less cynical and more positive, will play a big role in its future.

The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China.

Every citizen in every country in the world now grows up in two nations. Their own and Hollywood.

Over the course of my life, I have made many transitions - most of them taking me further away from my Somali roots and steadily toward the enlightened mentality of Western democracy.

We need to preserve our cultural peculiarities; however, going to the extreme would lead to cultural isolation

My personal opinion about the world is that it's homogenized.

The mutating virus of multiculturalism has escaped its breeding ground in elite universities and is now running rampant across popular culture, entertainment, and politics.

Before, there was a culture that said Mumbai is separate, Telugu films should be separate. Now, everyone is working together. It's cool.

American audiences very rarely deal with material outside their borders.

The joining of the Japanese with the French should make a new movement. I think it should be good for Paris.

The romance of English football is fantastic, but it has lost its identity under the influence of other cultures.

When I was growing up, the Spanish-speaking world was Balkanized. We were isolated. We didn't know what was happening in cultural terms in Ecuador, Colombia and Chile. Nowadays, this has changed a lot - fortunately for writers and readers. There is much more integration.

America is the NBA of culture. So to have Asian people in the biggest entertainment market in the world, in Hollywood, is cool.

It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.

Our offices across the globe may not be very similar in terms of the way they look, but they are very similar culturally.

Britain is just a melting pot for every culture. Like a pot for every culture around the world mixed into one. Artists over here understand that more.

Expanding internationally is exciting and fun, but the hardest part is really about maintaining culture.

Indian cinema is changing not because of outside pressure but because of inside pressure. Society is changing. Obviously, ideas change because of globalization, because of the huge middle class that is mostly first generation.

There is still a big gap between South America and Europe and Asia, and if we had more players playing in Europe, the gap would be smaller.

The rest of the world may devour Japanese hardware - from Honda Civics to Sony Walkmans - but Japanese software, such as books, movies and recordings, has had little impact outside Japan. The exception is video games.

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

We live in an ever-changing global pop culture community.

From jazz, the blues, country and rock to Hollywood movies, culture has in many ways been our greatest export (or our most obnoxious one, depending on your point of view).

I think of Westernized culture as a good visual for my music.

I think cross-cultural dialogue is something that has hugely impacted the richness of the culture of our world.