Cinema Quote by David Crystal

Language is just a communication tool; it is the content that decides the fate of a film.

— Ram Gopal Varma

The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater, and is closer to music. It’s abstract but still narrative.…

— Emmanuel Lubezki

Most screenplays, most motion pictures, owe much more to the screenplay. Ingmar Bergman has such an economy of language, so little language in his…

— Rod Serling

The audience I'm targeting doesn't care about the language spoken in the films they watch. They're interested in more important things like story, performance,…

— Chika Anadu

I like language, and in film, language is diluted by the visuals and the music. Theatre is what I was trained for.

— Joseph Fiennes

Film scripts are more important for me than the language of the film.

— Atul Kulkarni

In English films, they concentrate more on background scores and the music will be the main highlight of movie. When it comes to our…

— Arjun Janya

I look at a film as just a film; language doesn't really matter. I just don't want to limit myself to a particular language,…

— Shriya Pilgaonkar

Language is what books do very well and movement is what movies does very well.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Language, I think, has nothing to do with film-making. It is how you make your point and whether you exploit the visual medium maintaining…

— Mani Ratnam

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

— Frank Capra

I find movies rely upon dialogue too much sometimes, and you lose the power of what really the most basic cinematic language is, which…

— Todd Haynes