Debra Granik Quotes

An English man does not travel to see English men.

Travel teaches tolerance.

I like making films about different cultures. I'm interested in things that I've never encountered before. I try to put myself in the audience's position.

Travel early and travel often. Live abroad, if you can. Understand cultures other than your own. As your understanding of other cultures increases, your understanding of yourself and your own culture will increase exponentially.

I like to learn things from other cultures. I'm curious. It's exciting to be in an unknown world, in a way.

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

We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions.

In order to engage in an 'experiencing of the world,' one has to physically move oneself to the most diverse places on earth.

A person can do a lot of reading and research as I have done. I went to Spain and spent a whole summer there with my family, immersing myself in the culture. But all that isn't really necessary to experience the music.

Going to another country you're not in your house, you're with people you've never met before, and I think it's definitely a good growing experience.

Our culture is not this thing to be seen from a distance. We need to be embracing the friction of it all - that is where the energy is.

I got exposed to so many different cultures and people.

I'm passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures... I've lived with Masai tribe... I travel the world and bring it back in the form of a research book that would become the starting point for the collection.

When you go visiting countries, you start reading the history of the place and you start getting into the culture, and then you have to leave. In my experience, all countries have hidden treasures.

I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.

As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don't want to be taught lessons, and I don't want to be spoken down to. I want to be treated as a peer and to be made to feel welcome.

Travel is the only way to get empathy for other people's mindsets - to know their struggles and what they're drawn to.

What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.

I love experiencing new cultures and new foods.

They say travel enables you to encounter your opposite. If this is true, I think I may have met mine in a shepherd's hut in Transylvania.

Everything in Asia is a culture shock, it's very different from North America, but it's great to be forced into a situation to meet new people and learn new techniques.

I've been exposed to so many different cultures.

I always say the diversity, and culture is the one thing I love the most about the U.S. How you can travel across one borderline and you end up with this whole new set of people that I find super-interesting and great on tour.

I like to meet new people and learn about their cultures - new cultures.

I got to travel to some pretty awesome places, learn other people's customs, and see what works in their world differently than in ours.