Siobhan Davies Quotes

I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe, it's more segregated between those different disciplines, I think.

Science, for hundreds of years, has spanned the differences between cultures and between countries.

More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.

There is no denying that working with international artistes gives the music a different feel.

I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what I know from them. This Nobel Award honours them all.

Alex Poots has always made a bridge between highly experimental and the mainstream.

The United States is still an enormous generator of innovation, from which other nations have long benefitted. But we now also have the opportunity to benefit from innovation taking place around the world.

The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie.

I like the idea of multidisciplinary conversations, so in that spirit, I try and make a contribution from the art world into the music world.

Musical 'fusion' projects have earned themselves a bad name, but that's mainly because they often involve pop artists conscripting orchestras to play unimaginative backdrops to their acts. What's really exciting is when you spark off a dialogue between very different musical forces.

Abroad, they have covered pretty much all subjects, explored every possibility, every twist. So similarities between ideas you have and those filmed abroad are quite possible.

I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.

At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation.

I've shot all over the world with crews from all over the world. The work ethic is the same. Bollywood is my career; it's what I do.

I like a lot of international people. Julie Taymore, the American director - she's one of the most exciting directors I've seen.

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

Art is collaboration: we are artists all over the world. I believe that people are always going to watch Hindi films... that's never going to die, but I think it's amazing that collaborations like that are happening.

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

I'm a fan of mixing cultures together.

BRICS should be driven by 'People to People' contact. It should explore developing innovative mechanisms of Youth engagement.

We are blessed to grow up in a country that is the world's leader. We are blessed to be some of the most well-educated Black persons anywhere to be found in the world. This education and talent can be used in a friendly relationship with Africa, the Middle East, the Caribbean and Asia to develop the wealth and resources of these nations. The friendship of us with our kith and kin around the world would cause both sides to benefit exponentially, based upon how well we develop these relationships.

Both sides are divided and Western countries collaborate with Muslim countries and vice versa.

Opera should be a place for art forms to meet. I've worked a lot with Peter Gabriel; his music isn't operatic, but he creates big, popular gatherings to which architecture, dance, and music are all invited.

Punditry has taken me across the world, it is wonderful to have interaction with new people, and it's a very small world now. I've worked for companies in the Middle East, America, and Europe.

I think if a Swiss watch can come to the country and have their own corporate stores, a Pakistani actor should come here and do a film here in India.