Language Quotes
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China's cinema has been rising for some time; it has more exposure, so my chances of becoming internationally known are better. But the first thing I have to do is learn English. If I can grasp the language, then perhaps I can think about the U.S.
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I've always seen movies in English with Spanish subtitles. For audiences around the world, the language is less important than if it's a good film.
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Music is truly love itself, the purest, most ethereal language of the emotions, embodying all their changing colors in every variety of shading and nuance.
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My last book, 'The Language of Flowers,' I wrote completely on naptime, when my little kids were asleep.
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The whole world has changed, so you just stay current with the world. There's nothing different in my language of how I say things.
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It's always a unique challenge when you're working with somebody where English is their second language.
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I get a lot of comics, and I can look at a comic and tell immediately whether I'll enjoy it or not. There are elements in the stories that I have no rapport with. I see dirty language, I see sleazy backgrounds; I see it reflected in the movies, the movies are comics to me. And I don't see a sleazy world. I see hope. I see a positive world.
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I've never lived in an English-speaking country, ever, but I lived in Austria. So, my second language is German. And when I went to school, I had a lot of classes in English.
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I had two experiences with very close friends of mine who experienced aphasia, the loss of language. It shocked me.
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Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
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Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.
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Expressing myself through language was always something that I had had to learn to do more so than others.
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I do that in whatever language of the country I'm in, because the audience appreciate it.
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I invented the colors of the vowels!--A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green--I made rules for the form and movement of each consonant, and, and with instinctive rhythms, I flattered myself that I had created a poetic language accessible, some day, to all the senses.
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As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.
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Because of our kinship in suffering, our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart.
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What I really like doing is storytelling, finding the body language that is necessary for the story. And when I'm doing it and it's working, I'm thrilled.
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I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.
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I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.
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The full meaning of a language is never translatable into another. We may speak several languages but one of them always remains the one in which we live. In order completely to assimilate a language it would be necessary to make the world which it expresses one's own and one never does belong to two worlds at once.
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In China, I realized that if you visit often enough and learn the language, you will be assimilated, but you'll still be kept at arm's length; you'll always be looked on as a foreigner.
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Language is fun; it's fun to try.
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When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell!
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Language, after all, is organic. You can't force words into existence. You can't force new meanings into words. And some words can't or won't or shouldn't be laundered or neutered. Language develops naturally.
