Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes.
We think in language. The quality of our thoughts and ideas can only be as good as the quality of our language.
When you're speaking Spanish, you're thinking in a different way.
I try to approach the film medium as a novelist and the novel medium as a filmmaker on some level. It's that question: Do we think in pictures, or do we think in language? And the novelist believes one thing, and the filmmaker believes another thing - and I'm fascinated by that balance.
People cannot do what they cannot think, and they cannot think what they cannot say.
I have always felt most comfortable singing in English, perhaps because I think in English.
In Malayalam, I can improvise, and acting is easy because I think in Malayalam, but for 'Velaikkaran,' I had to prepare for a role, which is a first for me.
I think in my mother tongue. That's Hindi.
Now I know Hindi, and I can read and write Hindi, but the problem is that I can't improvise when I am acting because I think in English, so I have to translate my thinking from English to Hindi, and therefore, I speak slowly.
