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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.

Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language.

My use of language is part and parcel of my message.

Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.

It's fascinating when you're from another place, but you don't speak the language.

It's a complicated process being so bilingual. Sometimes it's a mere word or sentence that comes to me, if I'm writing the book in English, in French. It's not always easy to deal with. Sometimes even during an interview somebody can ask me a question in English that I want to answer in French and vice versa - that's the story of my life!

I don't feel restricted by the language: I feel more free.

My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything.

Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely exact, and therefore, when you enter another language and speak with its speakers, you become a slightly different person; you learn a different sort of world.