I am my own worst critic, and I look at ‘Death Sentence’ now, and I go, ‘Oh wow, I have really come a long way.’ In terms of a filmmaker, I feel like my filmmaking language has really matured. – James Wan
I see my role as a translator, telling the story that’s in the book using the more visual language of film. – Jane Goldman
The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language. – J. Michael Straczynski
I lived for a year in Scotland. British sign language is very different from American. – I. King Jordan
Even if you didn’t see the movie, you’d see two words you’d never seen put together before – comedy and Muslim. Comedy is friendly – it’s the least offensive word in our language. – Albert Brooks
Poetry seems to be the only weapon able to beat language, using language’s own means. – Joseph Brodsky
Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I’ve seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me. – Alma Guillermoprieto
Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it. – James A. Baldwin
Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don’t use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks. – Anne Parillaud
I have learned to interface – what I think would be the contemporary term – with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages. I’ve learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure. – Bono
Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything. – J. M. G. Le Clezio
Because Shakespeare’s language is so expansive, we’re under this misconception that it’s difficult. But I discovered that it’s easy because it’s so brilliantly written. The words are perfect, and the language is intelligent and very emotional. – Jessica Lange
With every day that passes, David Blunkett becomes more insensitive in his language and more intemperate in his actions. – Charles Kennedy
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy. – Bela Lugosi
No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn’t understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language. – Jacques Derrida
I change the language with which I use my voice. In opera, I know I have an orchestra behind me; I have to communicate to people very far from me. – Andrea Bocelli
A writer is defined by the language in which he writes, and I would stick to that definition. – Joseph Brodsky
I speak Swedish, it’s my first language. Of course, growing up with Latin American parents from Argentina, I also have some other influences from other cultures. But Sweden is where I feel the most at home. – Jose Gonzalez
Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings. – Carol Ann Duffy
All I’m asking for is the law that’s been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let’s find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care. – Bart Stupak
When you live in a country where your own language is considered foreign, you can feel a continuous sense of estrangement. You speak a secret, unknown language, lacking any correspondence to the environment. An absence that creates a distance within you. – Jhumpa Lahiri
I’ve got to hear the rhythm of the sentences; I want the music of the prose. I want to see ordinary things transformed not by the circumstances in which I see them but by the language with which they’re described. That’s what I love when I read. – Alice McDermott
Malcolm X found the language that communicated across the board, from college professor to floor sweeper, all at the same time, without demeaning the intellect of either. – John Henrik Clarke
The novelist, he’s not a philosopher, not a technician of spoken language. He’s someone who writes, above all, and through the novel asks questions. – J. M. G. Le Clezio
Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature. – Annie Besant
While I thought myself employed only in forming a nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the Elements of Chemistry. – Antoine Lavoisier
Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful. – Carol P. Christ
Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn’t mean anything else. – C. S. Lewis