Quotes About Author

I started as a journalist for magazines in New York City, so it was always storytelling. And moving into movies was a natural transition.

Everyone talks about how, in your 30s, all of these growing pains transition into wisdom and you feel more self-assured and confident, but I think I had a bit of a jump-start on that at 27.

We have a very structured process for taking in refugees. It takes almost two years to transition from another country into the United States through the refugee process.

I think someone like Jack Kirby, for instance, would suffer greatly in the transition from print to digital were he still around.

Commercial directing felt like a very natural transition from my comedy, sketch, music video directing experience.

'Rent' was one of the main defining moments, and it was like the precipice of my transition.

I'm also a martial-arts practitioner, so it was an easy transition to go do 'Street Fighter,' which is action-packed and let me showcase my acting and martial-arts capabilities.

I do not think that it is right for me to start giving opinions about the human rights situation of any country, including Gambia, except when those crimes translate into the crimes that I have to investigate.

I don't ascribe to myself any special competence in economic insight. I translate what I hear from highly intelligent people into political and philosophical propositions.

'Material' is meant to be a fun, lighthearted song about the tiny bit of materialism that's in all of us. The message is meant to translate the notion that you don't need luxury items to feel special; you already are special.

American shows don't always translate, but this one has and speaking for myself I'm quite glad for it.

I became fascinated by the fact that you could translate written material into performance.

The exciting thing about doing art for someone else's story is how I can translate their world through pictures, and that's always a pretty big challenge.

The Mitch Rapp novels are as thrilling and entertaining as they are relevant. I am delighted to be given the opportunity to translate them to the screen.

I just hope and pray that my passion and enthusiasm translate on-screen.

I'm not a 'dystopian, futuristic master': I'm a schnook walking the street. It's an insane reality we're living in, and I'm just trying to translate it for myself.

To be honest, I'm not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated.

Stand-up for me is just my opinions on things, so it wouldn't be as fun translated into a sketch. Nor would a sketch be as fun if it were me standing there saying it.

Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.

'Out' was my real breakthrough, the novel that became a hit in Japan and sold a lot of books, so it was sort of an obvious choice for being the first book to be translated into English.

I translated Beatles songs for my English class.

It is difficult to survive as an author in Sweden, so for commercial success, it is good idea to write crime, get yourself translated, and live happily ever after.

The best translations are always the ones in the language the author can't read.

I wasn't happy with Tagore's own translations in English. Maybe he was, but I wasn't, so I took it upon myself to do it.