Sarah Snook Quotes

I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.

I wouldn't say there are alliances at the pageant, but I understand if you can't speak the language, you would want to hang out with someone who understands you.

There are certain situations, when you're in America, when people understand you better without an Australian accent.

It is always something special when you can talk with people from your country. It is always nice to hear advice in your own language.

Directing non-actors is difficult. Directing actors in a foreign language is even more difficult. Directing non-actors in a language that you yourself don't understand is the craziest thing you can possibly think of.

While 'Babel' is a foreign-language film in some countries, in others, it is a local film.

I'm not a xenophobe - I think immigration is a good thing for most countries - but they transmute the foibles of their native tongues into English in a way that's difficult to figure out.

People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.

The business is so international now; you'll be working on an American film, and you'll start chatting to someone, and it's like: 'Oh, you're English, too.'

I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.

I grew up with a grandmother from another country and having a different language in my house. That gave me an ear for accents.

Language is no barrier. I watch Telugu movies, and I really enjoy them.

The last thing an Englishman wants to hear is a man from Brussels trying to imitate his language - you want to hear a different point of view. You may not be able to understand the details, but you can understand the feeling.

Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport.

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

New words travel from one variety of English to another and at a rapidly increasing rate, thanks to the way language is exchanged today over e-mail, chat rooms, TV, etc.

As a member of the audience, when you see someone from your country working in an international project, your curiosity about that film increases manifold.

In Italy, you're in your comfort zone when it comes to language, lifestyle, your habits and preparations, and moving abroad is not easy. It's not easy to carry over your own ideas about football, your own methods. You have to get everything across in a different language, and that wastes a lot of energy.

On a bus ride through China, my family and I had talked for hours before a police officer boarded to conduct an inspection. My mother and brother couldn't speak Chinese, so they pretended to be deaf and mute, and none of the Chinese passengers said anything, sparing us.

It's good to have someone who speaks your language in everyday life, especially for me, who does not speak English so well.

I want to take that step, being a Latin girl, and doing my Spanish music, but I want to go global. International.

When I go to Korea and they say, 'Sing like a Korean person,' I can't do it. I didn't grow up with that sound.

I was just stunned when I came to America. I didn't know anything about rock music or football, and I felt very out of it... America was like a foreign country to me at first.

I am used to being places where I don't speak the language. What I am not used to is being in a part of a country where few people speak my language. Call it ignorance, arrogance, or what have you, but most places I have visited, I was lucky enough to be able to get by with English.

There is a future for English films. Don't we all talk, breathe, and think in English? If we can talk and think in English, we can also make films in English.