Words matter. These are the best Babel Quotes from famous people such as Ted Dwane, Franz Kafka, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Garth Risk Hallberg, Elvis Mitchell, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
We never could have foreseen the success of ‘Babel.’ It’s not like banjo records were soaring up the charts, you know.
If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.
Films like ‘Babel’ can transcend the one point-of-view formula that has reigned for so long.
A fragmented film such as ‘Babel’ gives the impression of ‘edginess’ but, in its form, tells us nothing we didn’t already know.
‘Babel’ is about the point of view of others. It literally includes points of views as experienced from the other side. It is not about a hero. It is not about only one country. It is a prism that allows us to see the same reality from different angles.
Inarritu’s own nomination for Best Director for ‘Babel’ was the first such honor for a Mexican director.
There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life and the cross-defined life than that of the Tower of Babel.
One whom the infernal gods of Hannibal will cause to be reborn, terror of mankind; never more horror nor worse days in the past than will come to the Romans through Babel.
None of us had really any interest in doing a sort of ‘Babel 2.’
I think it’s a great story, the story of Babel. I think anyone can direct it as an analogy for a lot of different situations.
Where liberals see as an ever-more-splendid diversity of colors, creeds, ethnicities, ideologies, beliefs and lifestyles, the Right sees the disintegration of a country, a nation, a people, and its replacement with a Tower of Babel. Visions in conflict that democracy cannot reconcile.
As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God’s anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.
There’s an arrogance of assuming that we can interpret the past – that we’ve left the right footnotes, that we’re doing the right reclamation projects, that we’re not overcorrecting. Actually, we have no idea where we’re going. It’s this Tower of Babel type scenario.
I’ve seen ‘Babel’ four times. And each time I realize anew what a monumental project that had been for me.
There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues.
