Yael Stone Quotes

Even some of us who make movies underestimate their influence abroad. American movies sell American culture. Foreigners want to see American movies. But that's also why so many foreign governments and groups object to them.

When you start exporting ideas, philosophy, behavior, products, ways of living, it becomes an assault on the culture. Americans have to understand that.

If there is cultural imperialism, it is definitely American.

The issue of American world cultural dominance is moot. All the international debates on the issue seem to be held in English.

Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment.'

Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that.

A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.

The French view globalization as synonymous with Americanization, the cultural imperialism that has filled France with bad food, bad films, and English words.

A lot of my work reflects the incredible influence that America has had on contemporary African culture. Some of it's insidious, some of it's innocuous, some of it's invisible. It's there.

You Americans, you have no idea how much your stuff infiltrates the rest of the world!

We've had American TV shows in Britain for years and that hasn't affected our culture at all.

The big French movie distributors are the Trojan horse of the American cinema.

Seriously, American pop culture must be the most predominant force on the planet, next to pollution and poverty.

The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.

We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.

What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.

In today's world, America's soft power is commonly thought to reside in the global popularity of Hollywood movies, Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Starbucks.

We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.

It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.

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

Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others.

America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture.

So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.

Suddenly, the screens were dominated by American entertainment to the extent of something like 95 percent. As a result, audiences turned away from the kinds of films that we used to make.

Secularism is the experience of the Western culture and thought. Insisting on spreading it to places where the underlying intellectual background, and the political and social reasons for its appearance are lacking, is clearly a mistake, regardless of being desirable or not.