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I don't think know if anything's going to translate anywhere. You're making a movie, you hope it's going to be funny, you can't think about how it's going to go over.

— Ben Stiller

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me. I know that it's really hard to do, but I feel like I want to have a chance to try and translate something I've written and try and get a tone across.

— Dana Fox

I want my words to survive translation.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I've realized I have to be very careful in what I say. I speak my heart out. Such honesty is not appreciated in the film industry. Instead, it is twisted and distorted. A lot of what I say is lost in translation.

— Sonam Kapoor

The best translations are always the ones in the language the author can't read.

— Jorge Amado

With a terrible script you hustle and try to make it better. But with a good script it can be trouble because you rest on your laurels, so to speak, you think it's going to translate easily.

— Robert Downey, Jr.

If a translation doesn't have obvious writing problems, it may seem quite all right at first glance. We readers, after all, quickly adapt to the style of a translator, stop noticing it, and get caught up in the story.

— Lydia Davis

The problem is that it is difficult to translate.

— Elfriede Jelinek

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

— David Lynch

✗Opposing Perspectives

I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.

— Elia Kazan

A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

— John Millington Synge