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.
I am particularly distressed when people in the public eye who influence our culture perpetuate sexism.
Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
We do want to be diverted and be interested and be provoked by popular culture - by art, if we're lucky. And it's amazing how often people have lost sight of this.
Art is like a stock with a decent return for people in finance, and they get to feel like they are involved with culture, spend time with artists, as part of their dividend.
I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music.
I believe that doing the right thing will not only create the best culture and the best product, but you'll also make the most money - even if you're making decisions that lose you money in the short term.
The dolphin fishing that takes place in Taiji town is an ancient fishing practice deeply rooted in their culture and their practices and supports their livelihoods.
In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.
I very purposely have an open communication culture, where I encourage employees to approach me with their ideas without dominating them.
I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.
I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
We're a very success-driven culture, which is such a downer at times. Even if you don't think that way, you're forced to think that way. Everyone is trying to subconsciously out-do everyone else.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that.
Politics is downstream from culture.
I think as a culture, we don't like conflict or looking at icky stuff - especially in our downtime.
It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.
Drag is there to remind culture not to take itself too seriously. All of this is illusion.
It's not worth it, it's not about money, especially when you're dealing with a culture. It should be about elevating the idea of what we are and who we are as people in the cinema, and that kind of stuff keeps dragging us back down.
