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There's the fine line between presenting your culture and learning about other cultures so it becomes global. ”
Stan Lee is like the universal hero. He got every culture together by storytelling. He gave every community their own hero to follow, in fiction and actually in factual life. ”
When you are very idealistic, but caught in a world which is all about business, it creates anguish. ”
My father had a garments business in Delhi which shut down. ”
I did not come to Mumbai to act. I came here to look for a job as our business had shut down, and it was a difficult time for us. ”
Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. They capture American culture and its perversion, its hypocrisy - how absorbed we are with youth and beauty and sexualized imagery, for instance, while preaching abstinence and modesty. ”
Imagine a music business where all the music press talked about, all day long, was cover bands of old rock and pop groups. Beatles cover bands, Rolling Stones cover bands, The Who cover bands, Led Zeppelin cover bands. Cover bands, cover bands, everywhere you go. ”
It is a depressing business talking to journalist. ”
I think it's probably the Dutch who are to blame for starting the whole 'art business', because before they came along, art was attached to relatively stable structures, and it was everybody's. It was like going to the movies. ”
The making of a whole person and the creation of true individuals can only happen by singing and dancing and making art. ”