A Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.
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In the United States there's not a lot of people interested in foreign language films. Every time, it's more difficult for foreign language films to survive here.
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When you do a film in a foreign language, you know there's a cost in it, that you know, unfortunately, the audiences of foreign language films have not been cultivated. There's a market, but the market has been reduced, unfortunately, and you know that when you're making a foreign language film, you're making a choice.
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Everyone is used to speaking a slightly different "language" with their parents than with their peers, because spoken language changes every generation - like they say, the past is a foreign country - but I think this is intensified for children whose parents also grew up in a geographically foreign country.
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