Malcolm de Chazal Quotes

It hurts a lot when you cannot really comprehend what a person is saying in a meeting, or you don't even understand what you're reading in your contract.

The only problem was that I couldn't communicate with Dario. He speaks Italian and I don't. We had a translator the whole time. I just felt that something was lost with the go between. He was a delightful man, but I wish we could have spoken the same language.

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.

Speech happens to not be his language.

Cats can't understand English, so you tell a cat, 'Come on. Jump on the bed,' and he just looks at you like, 'What are you talking about?'

But you people do not understand me, and I am afraid you never will.

This time I m not going to tell you a story. I'll just say that insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas. It's as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that's going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don't understand the language they speak there.

There is always that age-old thing about England and America being divided by a common language. You think that because we speak English and you speak English that you're bound to understand and like everything that we do. And of course you don't.

It's sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.

They say actions speak louder than words, but actions don't speak. People speak, and people are loud.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.

Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because art is primarily visual he expects that he should get the message immediately and is apt to be affronted if he doesn't.

Sometimes, with directors, you have to take what they say and translate it in your head, into something that makes sense to you, because you're speaking two different languages.

'Why' is a question no animal can ask, because both the question and answers require speech. Have you ever seen an animal shrug?

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

It's funny because I've made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.

People probably perceive me as a bit boring because I am a little slow in the humor department, but it's just hard for me to get jokes when they're told in English. I am always the last one to get it.

The barrier of communication is terrible if you don't speak the language. You cannot reach a player with a translator.

I was my mother's translator until I was probably 12 years old, and I remember how people looked at her.

Because my parents are Indian, everybody speaks Hindi to me, and I have no idea what they are saying.