Quotes About Subtitles

#1. In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.

Carl Hagelin

#2. Some people require subtitles.

Victoria Van Tiem

#3. I've always seen movies in English with Spanish subtitles. For audiences around the world, the language is less important than if it's a good film.

Patricia Riggen

#4. The Swedish he knew was mostly from Bergman films. He had learned it as a college student, matching the subtitles to the sounds. In Swedish, he could only converse on the darkest of subjects.

Ann Patchett

#5. It is expensive to give plays subtitles, especially for a short run, so most new dramas rarely cross the transcontinental bridge.

Katori Hall

#6. I like boring black and white films with subtitles. I'm basically a drip.

Henry Rollins

#7. Do you like foreign films?"
"With subtitles?"
"Yes."
"I hate those types of films."
"Me too," Cliff says. "Mostly because - "
"No happy endings.

Matthew Quick

#8. I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.

Tony Scott

#9. Imagine you are walking in China, and all the billboards are in English. And at the restaurants, as the people are talking to you, there are live subtitles. You don't even realize you are in a computer; it's just happening.

Rony Abovitz

#10. My 12-year-old daughter said to me, "Enough with the subtitles, Daddy, for crying out loud." Because they always seem to cloud the issue rather than clarify it.

Martin Amis

#11. Ah, dear, sweet Eden. To quote the great Rhett Butler, you need to be fucked and by someone who knows how."
"What version of Gone with the Wind did you grow up watching?"
"There are a lot of liberties taken with Spanish subtitles.

Karina Halle

#12. When I'm shouting at the defence, subtitles come up in front of the goal.

Shay Given

#13. In the United States, they always talk about subtitles, about chapters in a book without taking the main title of the book. They talk about a subtitle in a chapter and if you ask them about the headline, the main title, they say they do not know.

Bashar Al-Assad

#14. I wish people could get over the hang-up of subtitles, although at the same time, you know, that's kind of why I'm kind of pro dubbing.

Jodie Foster

#15. People who would go to an arthouse cinema and watch a Swedish movie and read subtitles ... it's a small percentage.

Steven Zaillian

#16. I think MTV should consider using subtitles. Half the time, even I can't understand what the fu*k I'm talking about.

Ozzy Osbourne

#17. For some reason I'm more appreciated in France than I am back home. The subtitles must be incredibly good.

Woody Allen

#18. Pools of blood are not recreational even lifeguards drown when the undertow breaks bread with the underbelly demons disguised as sharks have not put enough thought into their costumes a wiseman stays ashore when pointed fins read like italian subtitles the end is near ( ... ) the beginning

Saul Williams

#19. Watching a movie without subtitles will teach you how to keep up with what a person is saying.

Edward Clemons

#20. If you watch a Chinese movie with subtitles, it's just like watching an Arabic movie with Chinese subtitles. That explains why you can't take Chinese language movies and expect them to go abroad.

Bruno Zheng Wu

#21. Then the movie started. It was in a foreign language and had subtitles, which was fun because I had never read a movie before.

Stephen Chbosky

#22. My uncle is so funny - Don Vito. He was always fat with the craziest voice. Dude, he barely speaks English; it's just full-blown jibber-jabber. It's so funny to watch on TV because you really need subtitles because you can't understand him.

Bam Margera

#23. I decided, as I succumbed to sleep, that men should come with manuals, subtitles, and reset buttons.

Penny Reid

#24. It's interesting because Swedes subtitle everything, so they're so used to it. When my wife watches a show with subtitles, she has a skill to be able to watch and read. Whereas I'm more of a read or watch.

Greg Poehler

#25. Usually they have to deal with a dubbing situation or subtitles, and it takes you out of the experience. That's why we wanted to make something that felt really immersive for Chiniese audience, but it takes a lot of work to make 2 versions of a movie!

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

#26. I like subtitles. Sometimes I wish all movies had subtitles.

Gena Rowlands

#27. Charlie Chaplin and I would have a friendly contest: Who could do the feature film with the least subtitles?

Buster Keaton

#28. People will now go to films with subtitles, you know. They're not afraid of them. It's one of the upsides of text-messaging and e-mail. Maybe the only good thing to come of it.

Kristin Scott Thomas

#29. Guys generally need us to come with subtitles, cue cards, and liability waivers.

Melissa Jensen

#30. People don't want to read subtitles.

Stellan Skarsgard

#31. The moment you have subtitles and you have to speak Chinese, you already limit your global audience.

Bruno Zheng Wu

#32. What if it's an art film with subtitles?" "Then I'll suffer in silence.

Nora Roberts