Quotes About Language

Ideally my goal is, before I die, to have some information about every word that's ever been used in print.

We printed all the words out because otherwise nobody would be able to understand them.

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

'Bigg Boss' was the first time I was exposed to a situation where I had to only speak in Hindi. Prior to that, I was learning but never practising.

I had had a classical education prior to that.

Prior to 'Snowpiercer,' I've done many other international project that forced me to be in an environment where I had to converse in English.

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

On 'Prison Break,' I tended to talk a lot! They gave me a lot of fun words to say. There were always these great mouthfuls of words that would fall out!

Language controls how you are perceived by others, and in that sense, it is a prison.

I love France. The French respect your privacy.

The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.

Problematic' is one of these meaningless jargon words that people on the internet outrage circles throw at one another.

Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence.

I'm a language-oriented writer who proceeds sentence by sentence.

The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.

In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances.

Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.

Actors have their own processes, and if you want to be respectful of their process, you've got to communicate with them in the language of their process, and keeping that all straight is a little bit of a head-scratcher.

Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me.

Two of the first plays I saw after I arrived in Britain were 'King Lear' in Liverpool, and 'Antony and Cleopatra' at Stratford. One was produced with hardly a backdrop and the other with gigantic scene changes. I was impressed by what connected the two: the words and their life beyond the stage.

The good thing about not speaking the language is you just listen. You listen to everyone, every producer, every writer.

In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it from the heart of a crowd as opposed to as an individual performance is a conflicting thing. I do stand alone, and yet it's not about being an individual or being ambitious.

My dream is that Participant is producing content in every language in every part of the world.

The producing thing has come quite naturally to me. I feel like for directing, I would like to be more technically-savvy. I want to have the language under my belt, and I also want it to be a project that is very personal to me, for my first one.