Cultural Interpretations Quotes

As for the "anger" of the volcano, we leave it up to the local populations who create their demons, their gods and their divine punishment.

We all, to some degree, absorb the mythologies around us, our vision refracted by the prisms of our particular time and place.

Myth is what we call other people's religion.

The real truth about a lot of life's mysteries can be explained by science but people don't want to get in bed with science because it's cold. They prefer religion, myth, drama.

India is a reservoir of alternative interpretations of what the global is, and these ways of viewing the world need to be exposed.

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.

Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful.

There are stories of Maui everywhere in the South Pacific. They're different. Different areas have different interpretations. But and so we [with John Musker] fashioned, that was kind of the inspiration and we came up with a very simple basic storyline, focusing on Maui.

If it is true that if you believe in something, you manifest it, there are many Jesus Christs in the universe, because there are many different cultural interpretations of Jesus.

I think Americans are very verbal and Aussies are more circumspect, and that can come across as being clearer. It can also come across as abrupt and cold. Some people find me to be abrupt and cold. That's just my personal style.

There is no American history. There is no French history. There is no John Wideman. There are all these dreams that are floating around. People construct them and fight with them and criticize them, and the world goes on. I don't think the stars pay much attention.

Every age sort of has its own history. History is really the stories that we retell to ourselves to make them relevant to every age. So we put our own values and our own spin on it.

Cosmologies are made up of small snippets of physical reality that have been remodeled by society into vast cosmic deceptions.

Whenever women protest and ask for their rights, they are silenced with the argument that the laws are justified under Islam. It is an unfounded argument. It is not Islam at fault, but rather the patriarchal culture that uses its own interpretations to justify whatever it wants.