John Foster Quotes

Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other.

It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.

When you make a movie independently, you raise the money beforehand, and then you make the movie kind of by yourself.

Art should not be bound by barriers or language. The Hindi film industry is a testament to that. We speak only Hindi, but we premiere in Germany and Japan. Our films do phenomenally well there. We transcend the barriers of language and culture. We welcome you in. I think that's what art should be, and I hope America reaches that place.

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

As Claude LeLouche said, his favorite American director is Sergio Leone. Not because I would be American, but because I was dealing with subject matter that an American could have just as easily dealt with.

I grew up in a unique environment where I was immersed in both Japanese and American cultures equally.

I am interested in exploring encounters where worlds meet and not where they separate.

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

I like embracing other cultures.

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.

Music is just another language, but it's very special because it crosses everyone's borders.

The writer, Ruth Jhabvala, livedin India but was German. My partner Ismail Merchant was from Bombay but was educated in England and he had a different view on the world. Probably they had to contend with some sort of Oregonian-ness in me that they didn't understand and didn't know where it was coming from.

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.

Kaante' will help the film industry. Very few films are like this one - pre-production in Europe, one-schedule shoot, well planned post-production.

I admire JLo because she succeeded in breaking through and harmonizing two different cultures.

I embrace both my Vietnamese and American sides, 100 percent.

I'm inspired by many artists whose language I don't understand.

Everything has changed since I came to China.

When I perform in another country. The local people there sing along to my song in Korean.

No matter where you come from, if you sing in English, you can cross over to the world.

If we can listen to English music without understanding nothing, and dance on it, and feel the groove, feel the feelings, I'm sure everybody can do exactly the same for each language.

It's rare to find an Indian who speaks Chinese. It's rare to find a Chinese who can speak any of the Indian languages. Neither of them at the trading level - I want to repeat this, at the trading level - can speak English, either.

Good cinema has no regional or linguistic boundaries.

Somebody should tell the president of Mexico that when he appears on American television, he should speak English.