Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

Language should not be a barrier for an actor; I want the world to see my work and not limit it to Hindi-speaking audiences.

Personally, I don't give a toss about French viewers. I make films for foreigners - it's a bit like Ken Loach, who's not very popular in England but has had a lot of success in France. Cinema is always an experience in a foreign body.

The difficulty that many foreign authors face in having their works translated into English has effects far beyond the United States.

I do films because there is an audience out there. It doesn't matter if they're Indian, American, or European.

The film business is just one of our verticals. We have wanted for some time to make inroads into the English language market, because I think that over time such films can cross over into the international market.

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 don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so you can see how they live in different countries.

Move beyond the educated elite, and the great majority in most countries outside Europe don't speak English.

It's funny because I remember when I came to the U.S. with 'Swimming Pool,' the movie did well, and it was great box office for a French movie, but I remember I was a bit upset because all people talked to me about was the nudity.

I always say, 'Hip-hop takes me everywhere.' It's crazy when I step onstage, and people might not speak much English, but they know every word to your songs. It's kind of freaky, but it's really cool.

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

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.

Movies that are subtitled don't usually do as well in American theatres.

My dream is that Participant is producing content in every language in every part of the world.

The biggest challenge Malayalam cinema faces is territorial. We operate within a small territory in Kerala, and the Malayalam diaspora across the world in comparative terms is quite small. But we have world-class talent in terms of technicians, actors, and writers.

Audiences want to watch good films, even if it is dubbed in another language.

I want to try to have as many people as possible interested in my content, so it needs to go across language barriers.

The English book world is relatively closed to translation, so only a small amount of foreign language work can come in.

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.

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?

We feel it's really interesting to see how our music translates to such a broad audience.

In America, they don't need to look outside their country for anything, so they definitely don't need to look elsewhere for rappers with weird accents that they have to get accustomed to, which is like homework to them.

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.

It is a conscious decision that I do films in different languages.

In the United States there's not a lot of people interested in foreign language films. Every time, it's more difficult for foreign language films to survive here.