Mani Ratnam Quotes

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.

My publication, 'The Post,' has taken the initiative to translate many of my pieces and publish them in Arabic. For that, I am grateful. Arabs need to read in their own language so they can understand and discuss the various aspects and complications of democracy in the United States and the West.

For some reason I'm more appreciated in France than I am back home. The subtitles must be incredibly good.

Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of reinterpretation for the new language may be not only inevitable but desirable.

For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of places where meanings are lost in the process of translation.

I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.

In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.

When I was a girl, there wasn't anything in Spanish in the movies until you saw it on DVD.

I'm not a xenophobe - I think immigration is a good thing for most countries - but they transmute the foibles of their native tongues into English in a way that's difficult to figure out.

I hope the English-speaking world can see that I'm not only an Israeli actress.

I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.

Yes, translation is by definition an inadequate substitute for being able to read a masterpiece in the original.

I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English.

The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.

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

A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens.

I wish people could get over the hang-up of subtitles, although at the same time, you know, that's kind of why I'm kind of pro dubbing.

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

I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.

The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.

I'd like to set a story in Australia, but I would need to feel confident my German and U.S. readers, for example, would stay with me.

Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.

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

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

The only thing that kept us from going bigger worldwide was the language barrier. All the corn that we did on 'Hee Haw,' it was hard to translate into their slang.