What bothers me is our culture's obsession with nudity. It shouldn't be a big deal, but it is. I think this overemphasis with nudity makes actors nervous. There's the worry about seeing one's body dissected, misrepresented, played and replayed on the Internet.
I try not to become too regular an addict of any one subculture.
The preoccupation of American historical and literary scholars with the New England Puritans must seem to outsiders like an obsession.
Underground people pay a desperate toll finding out things nobody else has discovered yet. We run around like headless chickens looking for the next cultural fix to spiral around in before it gets appropriated somewhere else and becomes something it never was. There's this sort of one-upmanship in the underground.
The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.
The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage.
America is a country obsessed with appearance. It's a country obsessed with looks.
A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.
We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too.
Film is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream, it takes over as the number one hormone; it bosses the enzymes; directs the pineal gland; plays Iago to your psyche. As with heroin, the antidote to film is more film.
Oversized houses, like oversized cars, seem to be a particularly American fixation.
I think this country is terribly, horribly obsessed with age, and it really is just this country. If you're still living and breathing at 50, then count your blessings!
Even though a high IQ is no guarantee of prosperity, prestige, or happiness in life, our schools and our culture fixate on academic abilities, ignoring the emotional intelligence that also matters immensely for our personal destiny.
I wanted to make a comment on the obsession with success and failure that we see a lot in America.
Beauty is like a new class system. The world is so obsessed with beauty; it has been for the last 2,000 years. It's the one stock that's never gone down, the one stock that's never gone out of fashion.
All of us in Quebec - and I mean all of us - have allowed language to become a preoccupation that works to the disadvantage of all of us - and I mean all of us.
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
