Foreign Language Film

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

    “If you don’t know foreign languages, you don’t know anything about your own.”
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    “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)

    “For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “You should look straight at a film; that’s the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.”
    —Werner Herzog (b. 1942)