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If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

Culture is something that we all share, and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it.

My culture doesn't regard acting highly.

I don't think culture is something you can describe.

Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.

The bad guys are not typical; they are not just bad, they are interesting. They might be good or bad.

The culture is just so coarse that you have to take it to that level and people will be like, 'Whoa!' And then you can make people think about stuff. It's kind of like shock therapy.

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

When your culture comes from watching TV every day, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities. None of that happened where I was. You're almost taught to realize it's not for you.

It's very, very hard to affect culture. And you can get surprised thinking you're farther down the path of change than you really are because, frankly, most of us like the way things are.