John Burnham Schwartz Quotes

After college, I wanted to learned about myself as an American, so I left the United States and went to Japan.

I had the interesting experience of having lived and worked for six years in China with Procter & Gamble, and that just changes, I think, your whole perspective in living overseas and living in a country like China.

I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.

I've worked a lot in Europe, particularly Spain, which I like very much.

In general, taking soccer out of the picture, as an American living overseas, it's so cool, and I've grown so much. Now I can look at my life from a different perspective.

People have asked me about what it's like to work in Pakistan and abroad. It's such a healthy cultural exchange.

Everything has changed since I came to China.

I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there.

Living abroad has heightened my interest in how foreigners regard the strange places we encounter.

From 'Embracing the Wide Sky', I went to the States, to Canada and to different parts of Europe as well. I gave interviews in several languages.

I actually speak fluent German. And I live in Vienna, and I'm married to a Viennese woman.

I've only ever known growing up across different countries - to me it's just fun.

Personally, I have been enriched by my experiences in Egypt and America, and feel fortunate to have been endowed with a true passion for knowledge.

My home is Montreal. I will stay in Montreal and continue to make movies in Montreal. But it's also very healthy for Canadian filmmakers to work outside the country. You learn so much.

When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into a program that placed us with a lovely Mexican family. We lived with them for six weeks while studying Spanish poetry and Mexican anthropology.

A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a Chinese person or a Korean person or a Bosnian person, within the prism of an American life.

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.

I spent years overseas. I spent 11 years abroad.

Working overseas is more difficult in that it's much more complicated to get people to open their hearts to you and to tell you information.

I don't ever want to stop learning. And I really want to learn French fluently. It would be great to go and live in France.

I was born and raised in Vancouver. I moved to Beijing in 2010 just before the Olympics. Being an Asian Canadian actor, the amount of opportunity at the time was slim to none. I made the decision to go to China, and it was one of the best decisions of my life.

I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having a lot of Japanese friends and being there over the years.

When we moved to Europe when I was a teenager, I really did not want to go. I was happy in my school, with my friends, but looking back on it, it was the best experience I've ever had. We traveled every weekend. I experienced incredible new cultures, museums, cities, and it really opened up my eyes.

I went to a foreign country as a Japanese actor, not a Hollywood actor. This takes courage.

I'm very comfortable in the U.S. and Europe, but I feel completely out of place in the rest of the world, mostly because I never spent time outside the U.S. and Europe until I was in my 30s.