Top 12 Babel Quotes

Here we have the best Babel Quotes from famous authors such as Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Adam Sedgwick, Nostradamus, Arthur Keith, Winston Marshall. Find the perfect quotation from our collection.

While 'Babel' is a foreign-language film in some countr
While ‘Babel’ is a foreign-language film in some countries, in others, it is a local film.

Films like ‘Babel’ can transcend the one point-of-view formula that has reigned for so long.

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.

Adam Sedgwick
‘Amores Perros’ is rock, ’21 Grams’ is jazz, ‘Babel’ is an opera, and ‘Biutiful’ is a requiem.

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.

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.

‘Babel’ is a continuation of a project; it’s not like now we are more theatrical. We’ve grown up, seen places, been places, and that is shown in this album.

We never could have foreseen the success of ‘Babel.’ It’s not like banjo records were soaring up the charts, you know.

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.

Rinko Kikuchi
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.