Zhou Xun Quotes

When I signed with Scooter Braun and I decided to go overseas to promote my song, the only concern was how should I communicate with the public and the audience with my language. Scooter and I talked a lot about that: should we translate or not? Finally we didn't, and I think that was a really good decision.

I love animals, but I don't want to talk to them. I'd rather be able to talk to other people on other continents and understand them.

The world distribution of French movies is a laughing matter. That is a fact.

I feel blessed to even be able to put out an English album. Not too many Latin artists get the opportunity to come out and record another genre that's so different to Bachata.

I think it's important that nobody forgets that although Hollywood commercially dominates the world cinema, in fact what comes out of the filmmaking here is only a tiny slice out of the massive amount of operation that goes on around the world.

The cool thing about doing a voice-over into a different language is that you get to bring the character of your own culture into it.

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.

My experience of Chinese culture is indirect, through echoes. When I approach the cashier at my local Chinese supermarket, they switch to English before I've even said a word. They somehow know that I'm not quite Chinese enough.

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.

The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language.

I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.

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.

In a way, the truth is that I was dreaming to do a movie in the United States just because, as a filmmaker, I always loved the idea of trying to make movies in a different culture, in a different way. It's always interesting to make a movie abroad.

Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligible to each other.

When you go to another country, you can work with different players in different situations, in a different culture.

I'm glad I did South films because I feel they have moulded me. They are really loud and are in a different language, so it's not easy.

If I can still have Hollywood and a piece of Bollywood, I will take it.

Art and cinema is not restricted to any language.

It is a challenge to work away from India and with a cast and crew from all over the world. But it's also very gratifying, and you learn so much by just being with them.

I'm always afraid to act when I don't know the language and it perturbs me during my dubbing sessions too.

The people of the two nations, French and English, must be brought into mutual dependence by the supply of each other's wants. There is no other way of counteracting the antagonism of language and race. It is God's own method of producing an entente cordiale, and no other plan is worth a farthing.

The population increasing, some of it could be in countries we haven't thought of making art in. I've never entertained making comedy in China. Like what world is that? I don't know how they would perceive art or sketch comedy. It's not a matter of intellect; it's a matter of language.

Languages are fluffy big pillows stuffed between nations - what others say is muffled and nearly lost in them, and when we speak their grammar we get feathers in our mouth. It's worth it. What pleasure to phrase an idea, even in child's words, slowly, and sail it across the gulf in another language to a different-speaking human being!

I understand different cultures because I have travelled a lot.

One of my biggest sponsors is based in China, and I probably spend as much time there as I do in the U.K. Over the years, I have really grown to love it, but the first time I went was a different story.