Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who can sometimes be impatient, or even intolerant.

When I first went to Japan, I was wrestling under my real name. The Japanese people have a great amount of difficulty with the letters f, r and l. So three out of the six letters in my first name they couldn't say. It was a bit of a mouthful for those guys.

Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language.

You only have to look at London, where almost half of all primary school children speak English as a second language, to see the challenges we now face as a country. This isn't fair to anyone: how can people build relationships with their neighbours if they can't even speak the same language?

I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign language. You're liberated or freed from preconceptions.

It's always nice to have somebody with the same accent when you're working in a foreign country.

You know it was really hard to do a set, or even to do interviews in English, because in Europe, we always had a translator with us.

You forget, when you're in the Scandinavian countries, you forget they don't speak English first and they speak better than I do.

The English language is not always the President's friend.

To me, a big crossover was what happened to me years ago, like bringing my music in Spanish to Europe, or Asia. To me, that's a crossover because Spanish is not a language that everybody talks.

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

I like to write in coffee shops in countries in which languages I do not speak are spoken. That way, you're surrounded by the buzz of humanity, but you aren't distracted by people's conversations.

When you arrive in L.A. as an Englishman, you might as well be on the moon. People just don't understand you if you speak too fast, and most people there think you're Australian. Ordering was incredibly complicated. I was speechless.

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

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

Apparently Arnold was inspired by President Bush, who proved you can be a successful politician in this country even if English is your second language.

Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French.

I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.

It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it and feel confident with it.

It's liberating to perform in another language. There are some subjects I would never talk about in French, where they see me as a public figure, that I talk about in English.

The language skill in the U.S. for the most part has been awful. Many Americans don't learn any foreign language.

'Punda' marks my entry into Kannada and 'Krishnaleelai' will be my Tamil debut. It was a good experience shooting for both the films.

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

I've never learned to speak a foreign language with ease.

In Italy, you're in your comfort zone when it comes to language, lifestyle, your habits and preparations, and moving abroad is not easy. It's not easy to carry over your own ideas about football, your own methods. You have to get everything across in a different language, and that wastes a lot of energy.