Book Quote by Kehinde Wiley

I see my role as a translator, telling the story that's in the book using the more visual language of film.

— Jane Goldman

I was in the second year of my PhD when I first had the idea - I'd recently started working as a translator, which…

— Deborah Smith

When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation.

— Etgar Keret

To have the translator be a figure in the book's presentation seems like a big thing, especially for a book that's really popular.

— Ann Goldstein

Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.

— Tom Clancy

When I act as a translator, I am really doing a performance for my fellow Anglophone readers in the West.

— Ken Liu

I have done many films and spoke different languages.

— Johnny Lever

You know it was really hard to do a set, or even to do interviews in English, because in Europe, we always had a…

— Bill Kaulitz

I may be working in different languages, but the sentiments of audiences remain the same.

— Catherine Tresa

I have a deep love for the art of translation, and I couldn't find a novel that captured the fascinating, reckless adventure of it…

— Idra Novey

I did my first movie, 'The Mambo Kings,' in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an interpreter actually…

— Antonio Banderas

When a translator translates my book, it is no longer just my book. It is the translator's book, too. So the book in another…

— Sam Lipsyte