America Quote by Alex Abreu

Bilingual films come with a certain inbuilt practical problem with respect to the setting of the story and the dialect.

— Mani Ratnam

So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful…

— Walter Salles

Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.

— Abbas Kiarostami

I'm a French director, but what's important for me is that my stories have a universal message, whatever language they're filmed in.

— Maimouna Doucoure

I have no idea why one of our most original filmmakers would want to spend two years of his life translating someone else's movie…

— Joel Siegel

I think that every film should have its own structure, and that's the beauty of film language - is that we get to express…

— Brian Lindstrom

Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language.

— Morten Tyldum

The moment there's a foreigner in a film it gives a novelty to the script. We make regional films and we need to hype…

— Arin Paul

Something like film, I guess there are so many elements to it, like the dialogue and what makes sense culturally.

— Thomston

And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past.

— Walter Salles

Any time there is a film in a 'foreign language,' in Spanish or Korean or whatever language, it's usually not an American film. It's…

— Lee Isaac Chung

When I was growing up, the Spanish-speaking world was Balkanized. We were isolated. We didn't know what was happening in cultural terms in Ecuador,…

— Mario Vargas Llosa