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Culture change means we will do things differently.

With foreign officials come foreign merchants, and with foreign merchants come foreign soldiers. They will usurp our authority and influence to begin with, and in the course of time, our guests will have become our hosts.

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.

I think the next president needs to lead on cultural issues and experience, particularly on foreign policy.

The business is so international now; you'll be working on an American film, and you'll start chatting to someone, and it's like: 'Oh, you're English, too.'

In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture.

Never the less, it is no light thing to enter into a profession absolutely foreign and alien to the people among which one's lot is cast; a profession which seems as dim and faraway and unreal as the shores of Europe.

Things need shaking up politically, culturally.