Nathan Englander Quotes

It's just nice to be able to communicate and be able to identify with a lot of different cultures. I have no idea what it would be like to be just one thing and speak one language. I feel enormously privileged to travel and be able to mingle and speak to people that, had I only known English, I wouldn't have been able to meet.

I've done two remakes, 'Rowdy Rathore' and 'Son of Sardaar,' and I see nothing wrong with it. The originals were in a language that not everyone understands, so when you're making it in another language, you can reach a much wider audience. That's how I look at it.

Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world.

I really want it to have an impact on the world. I want to be in a town on the other side of the world, and somebody walks up and says, 'That music you made in Glasgow, I listened to it every day, and it moved me.'

Being published in Arabic is a strong and consistent wish I have. I live in the Middle East and want to be in some sort of an unpragmatic dialogue with my neighbors.

It's fascinating when you're from another place, but you don't speak the language.

I'm interested in having a relationship with the world that's not my own.

Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely exact, and therefore, when you enter another language and speak with its speakers, you become a slightly different person; you learn a different sort of world.

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.

One advantage of photography is that it's visual and can transcend language.

People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.

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

Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.

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

It's always overwhelming when you come to another country and you're embraced in such a positive way.

It's amazing when you're playing to a crowd who barely understands English but they're singing parts of your song back to you.

Khan let Polo be his eyes and ears. He was the first one to build a bridge between East and West.

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.

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

My family is very international.

Art and cinema is not restricted to any language.

I can identify with Riho because I was the talent that didn't speak the language in Japan. I'm very excited for the fans to kind of build a relationship with her because it's going to take work from both sides to understand one another.

I was born and raised in China, Mandarin is my first language, and I definitely know America. I think that will be my strength, to try and bring the two worlds together.

Sometimes I wonder how my life would have worked out if my books had been translated into English sooner, because English is the language that's spoken worldwide, and when a book appears in English it is made universal, it becomes a global publication.

I get to travel the world doing what I love to do - making other people happy... They might not even understand my words, but the one thing everybody understands is music.