Chris Marker Quotes

My music was about travelling a lot and connecting with other people, and English is the voice of travelling.

Globalization has brought a proliferation of such environments, so that even monolinguals must increasingly learn to live and act multilingually.

Everything has changed. When I was at school and was told I had better learn English, I said: What for? The English are a hell of a long way away!

I'm extremely happy to be able to work to build communications throughout the world.

I woke up find a rather noisy multi-lingual meeting going on. This was great as everyone could participate and even though everything had to be translated into about four different languages it never became boring. After a while the meeting broke up and everyone went for food.

I think that 'Station to Station' is a nomadic project not only in a literal sense, as it's traveling by train from place to place. Some of these places are New York City or Los Angeles, but some of these places are rather off-the-grid places.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

I feel that as the world becomes more and more multicultural, it's a good tool to be able to speak another language.

If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.

I don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so you can see how they live in different countries.

I have no idea what it would be like to be just one thing and speak one language. I feel enormously privileged to travel and be able to mingle and speak to people that, had I only known English, I wouldn't have been able to meet.

Translation is at best an echo.

A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.

I don't really have that much contact with Americans. I mean, I see the oddest things on the Internet, I suppose. And I've got a couple of American friends, but they are Anglophiles anyway because they've decided to come live here.

The religious establishment (of Saudi Arabia) makes sure that millions of Islamic books are translated into other languages each year, but very few books are translated into Arabic.

I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.

Our Japanese fans don't speak English primary. They'll translate a sentence before coming and say something like, 'Thank you for coming to our country.' It's like, you're welcome. Thanks for coming to our show!

I've lived in England, France, Spain, Portugal and Germany in the '80s. I don't like being settled. It's not really healthy.

From 'Fonejacker,' multiculturalism has been a big part of my repertoire.

I speak to the Spanish players that we have in Spanish.

I think the thing that allows me to go into so many markets is that I can speak all the languages. Korean, Chinese, English, whatever. Thank you, my parents, for teaching me all the languages.

Pen names have always fascinated me, in part because I understand the professional and economic and even societal reasons to do so.

I think in French, but I get angry in Spanish.

If we can listen to English music without understanding nothing, and dance on it, and feel the groove, feel the feelings, I'm sure everybody can do exactly the same for each language.