Parvesh Cheena Quotes

In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding.

I do a lot of cultural material that's based on my traveling around the world. I basically just report what I've seen and where I've been.

An English man does not travel to see English men.

So many people from the West are coming into India, all the studios have come into India, and they're making films here, whether that's Fox, Warner Bros, Disney, everyone. That stands as testament for us, so why are we afraid of sharing our talent with the world? We must.

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.

I want to be a pan-India artist.

I was in one of the first sitcoms that had a lot of Asians in it. It was called 'Gung Ho' on ABC.

I am very happy that I proved Asian players can deal with the high levels of European football.

When I came to India, it's just a different country, but the culture was same that I grew up in.

I was not grown up in the U.S., nor in Japan. In order to create a video game that people around the globe can enjoy and relate to, I can't draw things deeply rooted in the local culture that I'm not familiar with. That's why we are not doing games about football or samurai.

For so long, Arab culture has been misconceived by the western mindset as exotic, or more recently, as dangerous, so spaces like Mathaf are vital for asserting a sense of connectedness.

I think it's really important that we have diversity - whether it's different languages, cultures - be involved in film and in the arts.

Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.

The freer a society becomes, the freer its arts can flourish and be exported.

Zef is the underbelly of the Afrikaans culture, but it also, like, is Afrikaans culture.

You have to go to other countries to realize Taipei is a place where there is diversity of thought.

People cutting across caste and communal lines like me. I go to north Karnataka, where people from all communities come to my meetings and rallies.

Doing any kind of culture in America in which you are not trying to affirm a European aesthetic is war.

Just like how you find players from different backgrounds in Indian cricket team, our Telugu industry is looking for talent, and it doesn't matter where it comes from.

None of us had really any interest in doing a sort of 'Babel 2.'

I've spent a lot of time in India. When I was a young cinematographer, I was completely enthralled by the color, the movement, the sounds. But photographically, it was very hard to capture it; photographs rarely did it justice.

I've always said that the more ethnic you become, the more international your film becomes.

Frieda Pinto has definitely opened Hollywood doors for Indian actresses.

I admire JLo because she succeeded in breaking through and harmonizing two different cultures.

The global view of cultures is part of my nature. I want to break down the walls between genres, categories, or cultures.