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.
Making comic adaptations means making a lot of choices - you need to adjust the pacing, the dialogue, and in this case, a lot of the cultural references.
Being an American is such a rich environment, because there's so many people from other countries and cultures, and through that you're able to see other people's experiences.
You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.
The deaf culture is portrayed very accurately on 'Switched at Birth' because the writers did the opposite of the norm. They did their homework before portraying anything on television.
We're warriors, this culture, and we're very puritanical about sex and very embracing about violence and I don't know why that is.
I'm a first-generation American, so I had friends from several cultures while growing up, including Indian and Iranian friends.
If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to know about their cosmos.
'Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance.
I can represent my culture while helping not only the Chinese-American community, but also the community at large.
It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.
Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?
In Australian culture, people are just more laid back, people aren't as serious, they just take their time with things. It's just like, whatever, if I don't get it done I don't get it done.
Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears and are thus inherently incredibly interesting and powerful.
What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.
As you get older, you realize just figuring out how to be nice to the people in your personal sphere is almost more challenging than trying to change the bigger culture.
I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other.
Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
Even though I wanted to experience all these things I was interested in, I couldn't get them. So I had to think critically and culturally about what was available.
You have to think about why you're asking an audience to come to the theater. It's not that they should come because it's good for them, because it's the vegetables that they should eat and the culture shot that they should get... It's about experien...
There are aspects of Asian culture in my work, but it's really rooted in an American experience - transcendentalism, '60s counterculture, punk rock.
