Om Puri Quotes

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

Art and cinema is not restricted to any language.

The only problem was that I couldn't communicate with Dario. He speaks Italian and I don't. We had a translator the whole time. I just felt that something was lost with the go between. He was a delightful man, but I wish we could have spoken the same language.

I think cinema has this beautiful component. It's a universal language.

At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways that almost any other art form in popular culture struggles to compete with.

I love working in cinema - it can be in any language!

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

For me, 'Shanghai' is beyond language. For me, it's good cinema. The language is incidental.

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.

I guess people feel that if you're working with good directors and are known in the Hindi film industry, then you won't work in South films. However, I believe that films have no boundaries of language, religion, or cast. If it's a good script and a good director, I can do a film in Spanish as well.

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!

Cinema is a creative medium. The director has the right to express.

After working on 'Europa,' I found it incredibly freeing to speak English in a film, so it kind of sparked an interest in me as an artist to improve my acting.

Acting in different languages doesn't stop you from growing; on the contrary, for an artiste, it helps a lot.

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.

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.

There are so many tricks and so much eye candy in cinema. What I love about the classicism of genre is that there's a discipline. I think it's a healthy thing to resist all that candy.

What I felt as a singer is that music and cultural contents are the biggest strengths that go beyond language and go to any country in the world.

Because my parents are Indian, everybody speaks Hindi to me, and I have no idea what they are saying.

Hindi film industry makes film for the rest of the world. Tamil films are watched by Malay people. When a film is not bound by a language, why should an actor be?

I have always done my bit to improve Indo-Pak ties, but sometimes you say something, and it is interpreted the other way.

The culture means the younger generation respecting the OGs, but at the same time, bringing it all to the older generation to where they can relate.

I've done more than 100 films, which is a sizeable chunk of life in cinema, so if something can startle me, then I think we can say we're looking at something fairly new.

What I want to do with cinema is keep it as universal as possible.

It's just about feelings. And the thing is we - everybody lives exactly the same things. We are all humans, even if you speak Spanish or whatever you speak. That's just - we are humans, and that's really interesting. And I'm sure that we can understand each other even if you don't understand my language.