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Some of Hollywood's most iconic movies are often the most quotable. Think Rhett Butler's, "Frankly my dear I don't give a damn" from Gone with the Windor Star Wars' "May the force be with you" or Arnold Schwarzenegger's legendary "I'll be back" from The Terminator.

But it's hard to remember movie quotes when you can't hear the dialogue.

A survey by the language learning site Preply found that more than half of the 1,260 Americans surveyed say they're watching shows with subtitles on because the soundtracks are too hard to understand.

That reliance on subtitles breaks the heart of Academy Award-winning sound editor Karen Baker Landers.

"I hate nothing more than when I've spent months working on a film, doing the sound and people say, what did they say?," she said.

Landers said a lot of factors can influence dialogue clarity. Number one on her list? Not hiring the right people for the job.

"I've worked on a couple of movies recently where the production recordist was very inexperienced [and] was hired because he was cheap," she said.

In the early days of filmmaking, actors had to project their voices and enunciate clearly so the microphones of the time could pick up their voices. Microphone technology has come a long way over the decades and yet speech clarity seems to have gotten worse. Because mics are more sensitive they allow actors to deliver a softer, more-nuanced performance. But there's a fine line between nuance and mumbling, according to Matt Singer, editor of ScreenCrush.com.