I was heartened that people everywhere want certain basic freedoms, even if they live in a totally different cultural environment.
The woman's perspective is like the dark side of the moon: it always exists, but it is never exposed, at least not in my culture.
Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.
In our culture it is a woman's body which is considered important while it is a man's mind or his activities which are valued. A woman is sexy. A man is successful.
In our culture I think most people think of grief as sadness, and that's certainly part of it, a large part of it, but there's also this thorniness, these edges that come out.
Among some of the youngsters, I think reality TV has installed that culture into them and inspired a few of them into wanting to be 'TV celebrities.'
I'm not a religious person; I'm more of a spiritual person, so I follow the rules of the Bible that coordinate with and connect with the Hebrew culture.
There's a constant anxiety that comes from having an innate sense of self, yet existing within a homogenised, aspirational culture.
At some point we must make a decision not to allow the mere threat of charges of cultural or religious insensitivity to stop us from dealing with this evil.
We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry.
I try to communicate in a way that allows people in on what's going on. What's better than references to popular culture?
There's a huge raft of roles that actors in our culture perform, and you can see any one of about three Hamlets in a year. It's not something to be completely daunted by.
It may be no surprise that Pittsburgh has direct flights to London, Paris and Frankfurt, but consider this: many of the tourists here have come from Europe to the capital of culture in the Alleghenies.
I'd like to think that the notion of inspiration will transcend cultural things that are going on. There's something classic about this movie that I'm hoping reaches kids.
Social and cultural history is often comprised of whatever diaries and letters remain and that is down to chance and wide open to interpretation.
If western culture is shown to be rich, it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to 'dissolve' harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.
Every culture has its distinctive and normal system of government. Yours is democracy, moderated by corruption. Ours is totalitarianism, moderated by assassination.
I have a lot of fans who are people of color. I think, if nothing else, I kind of understand that sense of being on the outside looking in, culturally.
There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite and you're like, 'Wow,' but then it's like, 'Hang on, isn't everyone supposed to be polite?'
I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.
We build our understanding of the emotional world through the myths and legends of our culture. We are all, in part, made of fairy tales.
