Foreign Language Film

Famous quotes containing the words foreign, language and/or film:

    “When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.”
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    “This poem is concerned with language on a very plain level.
    Look at it talking to you.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They’re obliged to overstate their own importance.”
    —François Truffaut (1932–1984)