Quotes About Language

There aren't many American directors here trying to direct a Japanese yakuza film. When you combine that with the fact that I don't speak much Japanese and this was an independent film I was financing myself - people were curious about what I was doing.

Since my Japanese isn't very good, I had to have an interpreter to communicate with most of the crew.

I don't really do Japanese interviews. I don't think there's much call for me in Japan.

Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.

When I was at U.C.L.A., I decided I was going to go to Japan and learn Japanese.

When we were working on 'River Ota' in the '90s, I learnt to read Japanese, which was how I discovered that it incorporates elements of Chinese calligraphy.

The only reason I even learned Japanese was to figure out what my parents were getting me for Christmas.

We would love to perform in Japan in Japanese, in America in English.

I think we invent jargon because it saves times talking to one-another.

'Cardiac Arrest' was the first British drama to use a lot of medical jargon. 'ER' began the following year and was the first American drama to do that.

Try not to be either intimidated by or a captive of jargon. Even though it's language, and language is about communication, it often exists actually to obfuscate and to control power and not to communicate.

No one wants one language. There are applications when it's appropriate to write something in C rather than in Java. If you want to write something where performance is much more important than extensibility, then you might want to choose C rather than Java.

A lot of times, we look at jazz in eras. How can we not keep those eras separate and think of the language as one complete continuum? It's all interrelated, and it's all evolutionary.

There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.

The 'Stephanie Plums' are very much Jersey books. So you can't get away from attitude and objectionable language.

After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.

I had to find my own language in jewelry. That was important to me; it really had to be what I would love to have myself.

There's also a certain rhythm to the way Jews talk that might be funny.

I don't know that hearing people have ever felt that experience of truly being left out. They have easy communication, while deaf people can't join in. It takes more time to communicate with us.

I joined the 'Celebri-tee campaign' and customized what is negatively known as a 'wife beater' to raise awareness about domestic abuse and the ways in which abusive language can be hurtful.

When a player joins Real Madrid's first team, they're often under pressure to be an instant success. By joining Castilla, I had the chance to understand the club and get to know the players, the culture, the country and the language.

He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.

The concept of modernity in literary history was also related to the relation each Indian language and literature developed with English. Sanskrit and Persian literary models were labelled as traditional and medieval, and those found in English, irrespective of any period, as modern (page 22)

When I first heard the word existential, I didn't know what it meant. But then I found out that no one knows what it means, so now I use it all the time.