Tanya Saracho Quotes

I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.

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.

Foreign languages was the only thing that interested me when I was at school, so playing in another language... it is quite demanding because if it is not your mother tongue, you are missing some connotations and some emotional depth of certain things.

I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!

I never found it frustrating not speaking.

When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them.

People don't want to read subtitles.

When you do a film in a foreign language, you know there's a cost in it, that you know, unfortunately, the audiences of foreign language films have not been cultivated. There's a market, but the market has been reduced, unfortunately, and you know that when you're making a foreign language film, you're making a choice.

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

Even when well translated. can we really understand what other cultures are talking about?

The hardest thing is to write a play, because you have to hold their attention for two hours, and if you let them go for five minutes, they're gone for good.

'The Lair of the White Worm' is quite a strange film. It's difficult to be good when you're saying lines that have been translated from Spanish to English by someone who speaks French.

I would like to write a play.

I feel that, particularly because of language, we are handicapped in getting a large world audience. But Hindi cinema has the same ingredients that appeal to the whole world.

My publication, 'The Post,' has taken the initiative to translate many of my pieces and publish them in Arabic. For that, I am grateful. Arabs need to read in their own language so they can understand and discuss the various aspects and complications of democracy in the United States and the West.

In Korean, my lyrics are witty and have twists. But translated into English, it doesn't come over. I've tried writing in English, just for me, but it doesn't work. I've got to know everything about a culture, and I don't.

Audiences want to watch good films, even if it is dubbed in another language.

Getting access to diverse civilizations should be easy, and languages are the gateway to that.

One of the functions of drama is to teach.

Bilingual films come with a certain inbuilt practical problem with respect to the setting of the story and the dialect.

I always think if you speak to someone in their second language, you speak to their head. If you speak in their first, you speak to their heart. I've always tried to let players see that.

I wish I knew more languages.

It's so wild to be able to say that I can do shows in front of thousands of people and have them sing my songs in Korean and in English - that is wild to me.

I want to make a film that can reach as many as possible so I want to talk in a language which I can easily communicate with.

Theater, at the end of the day, is about ideas. It's about very large ideas. And if the play is beautifully written or smartly written and has incredible characters you follow on the journey, you take home these larger ideas. Whether it's 'Angels in America' or 'Lucky Guy' or 'Normal Heart,' you follow this moment-to-moment journey as an audience.