Words matter. These are the best Subtitles Quotes from famous people such as Henry Rollins, Justin Cartwright, Jinkx Monsoon, Bojan Krkic, Bam Margera, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I like boring black and white films with subtitles. I’m basically a drip.
Tom Fort, a BBC radio journalist, starts from the assumption that ‘many of us have a road that reaches back into our past’. For him, this is the 92 miles of the A303 – as he subtitles his book, the ‘Highway to the Sun’.
I watched ‘Drag Race Thailand’ without any subtitles or voiceovers or anything; I don’t speak Thai but I do speak drag, so I felt like I understood exactly what was going on, even though I couldn’t speak Thai. I didn’t understand anything they were saying but I knew exactly what was happening.
I watch Denzel Washington films with subtitles.
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.
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.
People who would go to an arthouse cinema and watch a Swedish movie and read subtitles… it’s a small percentage.
I like subtitles. Sometimes I wish all movies had subtitles.
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.
In the documentary ‘Facing Ali,’ nearly half the fighters involved required subtitles despite speaking English, their speech slurred by the physical toll of their ring lives. This was their reward for testing their furthermost physical and mental boundaries.
I saw ‘The War Wagon’ with John Wayne and Kirk Douglas, but it was dubbed into German. And it had Japanese subtitles and then this little strip with some Spanish words, and I’ve never forgotten that weird image. It was so magical and funky.
‘Dances with Wolves’ really started the movement, using subtitles for Lakota Sioux and showing Indians as interesting, complex people – not just the enemy – and giving a lot of unknown Indian actors work.
