Cultural Exchange Opportunities Quotes

An English man does not travel to see English men.

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.

There are so many American experiences that we can't know about unless we venture out to create a dialogue, to observe, ask questions, and stay there for a while.

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.

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

I'm dying to go to India... because the culture seems so vastly different from what I'm used to in the States. I would love to do some yoga there. And be amongst people who are so different than myself. There's so much you can learn from people who grew up in a different environment.

When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.

Culture is a fluid, ongoing process. People tend to look at culture in a fixed time but it's constantly moving and evolving, as is the conversation between Americans and Cubans.