Quotes About Subtitles

'Gulabo Sitabo' is the biggest release for me. The film is going to 203 countries simultaneously and it is successfully being subtitled in 20 languages including Portuguese, German, Spanish, Russian, French and many more.

La vida avanzaba para los demás, mientras que a mí siempre me dejaba de lado, yo permanecía bloqueado en la edad de las cosas inmóviles. Mi vida sexual se parecía a una película sueca. A veces sin subtítulos incluso.

My uncle is so funny - Don Vito. He was always fat with the craziest voice. Dude, he barely speaks English; it's just full-blown jibber-jabber. It's so funny to watch on TV because you really need subtitles because you can't understand him.

I saw 'The War Wagon' with John Wayne and Kirk Douglas, but it was dubbed into German. And it had Japanese subtitles and then this little strip with some Spanish words, and I've never forgotten that weird image. It was so magical and funky.

People who would go to an arthouse cinema and watch a Swedish movie and read subtitles... it's a small percentage.

I know why everyone in a false world would think a boy who spent his whole life doing nothing is God. I just don't know how to give it decent subtitles yet.

Sometimes the world seemed to come with subtitles, like a foreign film. So help her, sometimes people's hidden motives, their lies, their rationalizations, were so pitifully apparent that Sophia felt she could just sit and read them.

In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.

It's interesting because Swedes subtitle everything, so they're so used to it. When my wife watches a show with subtitles, she has a skill to be able to watch and read. Whereas I'm more of a read or watch.

I like boring black and white films with subtitles. I'm basically a drip.

I have 16 plays, and we don't ever do subtitles. You can't do subtitles in the theater, so I was like, 'I'm not gonna do subtitles.' You'll never lose the story. There might be a little joke that you might miss, but you'll never miss the story, even in the Spanglish of it.

I like subtitles. Sometimes I wish all movies had subtitles.

'Dances with Wolves' really started the movement, using subtitles for Lakota Sioux and showing Indians as interesting, complex people - not just the enemy - and giving a lot of unknown Indian actors work.

I think MTV should consider using subtitles. Half the time, even I can't understand what the fu*k I'm talking about.

I wish people could get over the hang-up of subtitles, although at the same time, you know, that's kind of why I'm kind of pro dubbing.

In the documentary 'Facing Ali,' nearly half the fighters involved required subtitles despite speaking English, their speech slurred by the physical toll of their ring lives. This was their reward for testing their furthermost physical and mental boundaries.

Then the movie started. It was in a foreign language and had subtitles, which was fun because I had never read a movie before.

I laughed and shook my head. 'I don't think so. My mum doesn't really go out. And it's not my cup of tea.' 'Like films with subtitles weren't your cup of tea?' I frowned at him. 'I'm not your project, Will. This isn't My Fair Lady.' 'Pygmalion.' 'What?' 'The play you're referring to. It's Pygmalion. My Fair Lady is just its bastard offspring.

It's not about the fact of the matter as such, it is about the sentiment beneath. You can apply all the usual fact-checking tools to the literal claim, but the real point is always buried in the subtitles, and no amount of correction will belie that.

After dessert, they invited me to go with them to the arts center for a Russian film with English subtitles. I said, I don't like to read during movies, and once Julia laughed it became a joke and made me feel that I was irrepressibly witty. So I went with them. It was the bleakest movie I'd ever seen; everyone died of heartbreak or starvation or both. At home, Julia threw herself on the sofa in Slavic despair and said, Please do get me some vodka.

Some people say I sound Australian. I guess it's all down to Miss Matthews, who taught me English when I was growing up in Dar es Salaam. Nearly everyone in Denmark speaks English, and TV shows are only ever subtitled, not dubbed.

When I was a girl, there wasn't anything in Spanish in the movies until you saw it on DVD.

What if it's an art film with subtitles?" "Then I'll suffer in silence.

I learned English at school, or at least that's how it started. Also, in Holland - as opposed to some other European countries - we don't dub anything, so as a kid growing up, always watching English and American movies in their original language really helped.