If you have the ability and the wherewithal to create work that's basically in a discussion with the culture we're in, how could you not want to do that?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You have to work at creating your own culture.
Early on my career, I figured out that I just have to write the book I have to write at that moment. Whatever else is going on in the culture is just not that important. If you could get the culture to write your book, that would be great. But the culture can't write your book.
We have to change our culture so you can create wealth from making things and don't just try to make money out of money.
The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.
I don't want to interview people for the purpose of developing a world view and pushing that on people.
If you're doing something outside of dominant culture, there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.
In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it.
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.
It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.
For a really relaxing time, you want to go to a place where the work ethic hasn't taken hold, where the culture hasn't been taken over by the western values of constant striving.