To direct actors is difficult. To direct actors in another language is more difficult, but directing non-actors in another language is one of the craziest things that I have done and one of the most rewarding experiences I have had.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I want to be able to speak every language. If I could have any talent and I get to choose it, and be naturally gifted and speak every language. It's not going to happen, but it sure would be nice. It's a good wish.

- Andie MacDowell

I would say that jazz is my own language.

- Amy Winehouse

I'm open to reading almost anything - fiction, nonfiction - as long as I know from the first sentence or two that this is a voice I want to listen to for a good long while. It has much to do with imagery and language, a particular perspective, the assured knowledge of the particular universe the writer has created.

- Amy Tan

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

- Alice Walker

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

- Alice Walker

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

- Alfred North Whitehead

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

- Alfred North Whitehead

My responsibility is to make a film and find my dramatic language; I don't have any political or social responsibility.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Directing non-actors is difficult. Directing actors in a foreign language is even more difficult. Directing non-actors in a language that you yourself don't understand is the craziest thing you can possibly think of.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

- Abraham Maslow

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.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

- Albert Einstein

I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.

- Alan Rickman

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

- Alan Kay

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

- Al Pacino

It feels wonderful to be go back to the 1940s and recreate the whole era through my clothes, voice and body language. I am tired of playing the larger-than-life hero.

- Akshay Kumar

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.

- Adrienne Rich

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

- Adrienne Rich

A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible.

- Ada Lovelace