Alexandre Aja Quotes

I'd never really travelled before, and when we started going places, like Japan, France, Germany and all over Europe, it's been interesting to see how different cultures work. But to be there playing music makes it so much better.

We Americans look funny when we're in France because we don't travel, we are fairly un-cultured whereas Europeans go to Africa all the time because it's right there.

I find myself more at peace when I live in Europe.

Back in eighth grade, I'd seen nothing but small-town Georgia when I left the U.S. for the first time and went to Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China.

I'd never stop traveling, and I love bringing my family along with me. My children have points of reference everywhere, friends from Milan to Los Angeles. I think it's really fun for them.

I'm from Europe, England, and I actually lived in Italy.

My mother sent me and my sisters to Italy every year for language school, so I spent a lot of my teenage years in Florence and Rome. After university I went to Harvard for a year, dropped out, and then went to Paris, where I ended up staying 10 years. It's different from being American: If you're British, you're expected to live at the far corners.

You never really know what's inspired you or made you who you are, but I was really lucky that I got to grow up in places like Japan and Hong Kong that are super energetic and have this intensity to them.

America's very refreshing when you go over there; they're all just open about what they want, and they want you to be open, too.

I think growing up in the States and Australia, we were exposed to a lot of different types of things. I used to go to Gilman to watch punk shows, and it's a complete different environment - you were inspired by so many different things, whereas in Hong Kong, there is nothing for anybody.

I had a nanny growing up in Morocco, and my parents encouraged me to put myself in her shoes sometimes.

The audiences are really great. I really love it over there. I love Europe, period. Oh my God, all the architecture and all the history and just to the way people think and live is so different.

I want to make it very-very clear that Indian students are warmly welcome to U.K.

It was very confronting after growing up in the suburbs of Melbourne, then going to India. There's such a different emphasis on everything: food, family, hygiene, love, marriage. It's why it's so exciting, why it's so beautiful.

My sister Zoya and I have been exposed to the best of cinema of all kinds - Chinese, Japanese, Italian, etc.

The reason for my big success in England was the Brits - they started wanting to go on holidays, like Spain and Greece.

My father is German; my mother is African-American. Growing up, I visited my grandparents in Berlin a lot. I would not see any other person of color for three weeks. People would stare. They would say things like, 'Oh, you look like chocolate - I want to eat you up!'

In France, I am just Madame Campbell. In Jamaica, nobody uses my title.

I love Europe even though I'm based in the U.S.

Having lived in America and France, I've been on both sides of the picky-eating divide.

Cultural differences can be delicate situations we have to work within the respectful boundaries of.

I was raised around the world.

I went to Japan and I lived there. I lived in Mexico for a year. I went to Europe. I lived in Canada.

I'm an international baby. I'm happy my parents decided I should be worldwide.

When I was studying in Canada, we were so free.