Denis Villeneuve Quotes

I realized over the years if I'm writing about humor, irony, satire, I much prefer to do that in English. And if there is sorrow, melancholy, longing, I much prefer to do that in Turkish. Each language has its own strength to me, and I feel connected and attached to both Turkish and English. I dream in more than one language.

I talk bilingual.

I've always felt like I could express myself better in English just because the way the grammar works.

I would like to speak 10 languages.

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

I can speak English. I can speak Hindi. I can understand one or two other languages.

Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.

Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well.

I'm about as monolingual as you come, but nevertheless, I have a variety of different languages at my command, different styles, different ways of talking, which do involve different parameter settings.

It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.

I'm a professor of comparative literature, among other things, so I'm able to read in a couple of other languages, and I understand that not everyone is, not everyone can, although it is quite stunning how many people do read Spanish in the United States, but moving between languages is also extremely helpful.

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

My biggest regret is that I didn't teach my two children how to speak Spanish.

Everyone knows English is my second language and my vocabulary is not as broad as it is in Spanish, and because of this, sometimes I use the wrong words to express myself.

I had to know at least two languages.

I was always aware of what the language I was using meant in terms of my bond with my parents - how it defined the lines of affection between us. When I spoke English, I felt I wasn't completely their child any more but the child of another language.

I would love to be bilingual. I think having a second or third language at my bidding would open up the world in amazing ways.

I can manage in six languages - Marathi and Gujarati, in addition to Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi and Bangla.

I do speak a bit of Bengali.

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.

That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.

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

My mother is half Malayali and half Tamilian. I can speak Bengali and Tamil, but can't read or write.

It took me a while to grasp Kannada and Telugu.