Quotes

Films are entertainment. Their subtitles should be entertaining.

We must feel a translation directly in our hearts, not as though approaching it through a classroom or historical setting.

Subtitling is fun. It is thrilling to find just the right inflection, the perfect phrase that captures as much of the original as possible. . . . a translation that communicates what is said and unsaid is a wonder to behold.

Each translator may be brave or foolhardy, I suppose, a Don Quixote in his or her own way. And yet the pursuit is noble. We create a bridge where none existed before: a shaky bridge at times, perhaps even rickety, but a bridge nonetheless, the first of its kind for others to use and build upon.