“- Ian Donnelly: If you immerse yourself into a foreign language, then you can actually rewire your brain.
- Louise Banks: Yeah, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. It's the theory that the language you speak determines how you think and...
- Ian Donnelly: Yeah, it affects how you see everything.”
Jeremy Renner - Ian Donnelly
Amy Adams - Louise Banks

Like their ship or their bodies, their written language has no forward or backward direction. Linguists call this "nonlinear orthography", which raises the question: Is this how they think?

Jeremy Renner - Ian Donnelly

“I try not to live in past, only present tense since I come to America.”

Tony Shalhoub - Misha Vilyenkov

“- Martin Riggs: Flied lice?
- Benny 'Uncle Benny' Chan: Flied lice? It's fried rice, you plick.”
Mel Gibson - Martin Riggs
Kim Chan - Benny 'Uncle Benny' Chan

“- Deanne McKenzie: Since when did you learn to speak Chinese?
- Kurt McKenzie: Just a little something I picked up watching a Chinese cooking show.
- Deanne McKenzie: That's great. Maybe you should focus a little less on the talking, and a little more on the cooking.”
Maya Rudolph - Deanne McKenzie
Chris Rock - Kurt McKenzie