Cary Fukunaga Quotes

I love commuting between languages just like I love commuting between cultures and cities.

Everything has changed. When I was at school and was told I had better learn English, I said: What for? The English are a hell of a long way away!

I feel that as the world becomes more and more multicultural, it's a good tool to be able to speak another language.

I'm thrilled of the acceptance I get abroad. The people are so hearty, warm and grateful and I feel privileged having seen so many countries and some of the greatest monuments.

I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.

My music was about travelling a lot and connecting with other people, and English is the voice of travelling.

We must teach the next generation to not just learn languages, but whole cultures and belief systems. We will then make more of an effort to understand people and their different cultures.

In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian.

I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude.

Travel early and travel often. Live abroad, if you can. Understand cultures other than your own. As your understanding of other cultures increases, your understanding of yourself and your own culture will increase exponentially.

It always trips me out that America, the most powerful and magnificent nation in the history of the world, whose might was built by immigrants from all over the world, only speaks one language.

The ability to mingle with so many countries and cultures is extremely valuable for men and women.

It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.

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.

I got exposed to so many different cultures and people.

Many people don't know, but American Girl Scouts get to travel the world, and that's a very good thing, as the more we can expose our young people to other cultures, the better off we'll be in this increasingly globalized environment.

Globalization has brought a proliferation of such environments, so that even monolinguals must increasingly learn to live and act multilingually.

People who speak different languages, they are watching the movie from our language. So, I think all of us should be proud as nation and as cinema lovers.

American audiences very rarely deal with material outside their borders.

I enjoy it; my experiences abroad have taught me the importance of an open mind and have given me a willingness to wander off the beaten path - not only to keep life interesting, but also to understand in a meaningful way that things do not look the same from every vantage point.

I've been exposed to so many different cultures.

Getting access to diverse civilizations should be easy, and languages are the gateway to that.

I think the thing that allows me to go into so many markets is that I can speak all the languages. Korean, Chinese, English, whatever. Thank you, my parents, for teaching me all the languages.

I like to meet new people and learn about their cultures - new cultures.

When I go to different countries, I want to know how to at least say hello and thank you. Language is a great hobby.