'Arrival' talks very little about language and how to precisely dissect a foreign language. It's more a film on intuition and communication by intuition, the language of intuition.
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The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater and is closer to music. It's abstract but still narrative.
As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.
I'm interested in the way language is used to navigate the world around us.
It's fascinating when you're from another place, but you don't speak the language.
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.
I see my role as a translator, telling the story that's in the book using the more visual language of film.
I did my first movie, 'The Mambo Kings,' in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an interpreter actually just to understand directions from my director.
Sometimes, with directors, you have to take what they say and translate it in your head, into something that makes sense to you, because you're speaking two different languages.
Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.
Language is the means by which we negotiate our relationship with time.
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