All businessmen - how do they communicate? God knows. Sign language, probably.

Being a person of the armed forces is not easy. Performing it is also not easy. There is a sense of discipline and body language that you need to have throughout.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

One belongs to one's language as a writer.

I think of myself as a Russophile. I speak the language and studied the nation's literature and history in college.

All businessmen - how do they communicate? God knows. Sign language, probably.

Being a person of the armed forces is not easy. Performing it is also not easy. There is a sense of discipline and body language that you need to have throughout.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

One belongs to one's language as a writer.

I think of myself as a Russophile. I speak the language and studied the nation's literature and history in college.

The wonderful thing is, imagination is universal all over the world, no matter what the language is.

Wherever I go, I have to speak English, which is my second language. So whenever you get a chance to speak in your own language? It feels good.

The cinematic language and interior destiny of each Iranian film-maker is different. The international influences on them vary from Rossellini to Fellini, Akira Kurosawa to Hou Hsiao-hsien, but there is a strong sense of solidarity.

I always try to learn a few words from a new language wherever I go.

Even though many Indians can read or speak English, for most, it is not their first language. At the office, we speak in English, but we consume our culture in our own language.

I think if an actor is not able to pronounce their own dialogues, no matter what language, you are not an actor.

Something I miss terribly from the '60s - the most important phrase in the English language was, 'I got hung up.' Somebody says they got hung up, it's unassailable, you know? You don't go near that. Whoa! I know what that can be like.

Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful.

Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language.

When you become fluent with language, it means you can write an entry in your journal or tell a joke to someone or write a letter to a friend. And it's similar with new technologies.