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TRIBECA 2019—Christoph Waltz interview, "GEORGETOWN"


What was the experience directing your first film in a non-native language?

That's...that's good thinking. Um, well, if we were talking about Shakespeare, then you could give that question a bit more charge. I don't think what's interesting in drama happens exclusively in the language. What's interesting in poetry happens in language, but what's interesting in drama, especially in the movies is action. And I don't mean action, um, as hardware destroying each other, but um, interaction between things, though that is not necessarily primarily, um, tied to language. So, um, I mean, you can say cinema is a language. And that's the great thing about cinema, cinematic language, it's universal.

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