Richard Foster Quotes

I love communicating non-verbally. I find great value in it.

During the actual filming, I’m not really listening to dialogue. I’m watching to see if the actors are communicating something and expressing something. I’m just watching a conversation. You’re not aware of exactly what people are saying. You are aware of what they are INTENDING and what kind of feeling is going on in that scene.

Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.

There is a form of communication that transcends the power of words.

You don't need words to express feelings.

You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking.

I love body language.

Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.

There's something about studying body language and non-spoken emotion - I know the innate response. But to really study it like a science would be fun.

There's a lot you can do without words.

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

I prefer to express myself physically, or non-verbally. I prefer just to react without having a lot of dialogue.

I think you can actually express a lot more in ways without words.

The person you're playing must have feelings, but if he's not able to show them, then just the subtlest rumblings and nuances can say an incredible amount.

I just love human emotion and faces.

People generally express more in between their sentences when they're not speaking. Words are usually there to disguise who someone is or what they're feeling.

Really good acting is not about dialogue. It's really just about small moments that really make the whole entire scene and the intention completely different than even maybe what the characters are saying. Two characters could be saying, "I hate you, and I don't want to be with you anymore!" But yet somehow, their toes are just inching more, you know, closer to each other. So a really big thing about acting is really just with your body.

Most of us do not use speech to express thought. We use it to express feelings.

..he made me understand something very important. Whether because I am a Latin, or because I am a neurotic, I have a need of gestures. I am myself expressive, demonstrative; every feeling I have takes on expression: words, gestures, signs, letters, articulateness or action. I need this in others.

it is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.

In our animation we must show only the actions and reactions of a character, but we must picture also with the action. . . the feeling of those characters.

When there are no words, let your eyes do the talking.

People around you are quick to read your attitude of thought toward them. Inner thoughts and feelings are communicated in ways other than by the spoken word.

The things one can express with the hand, with the head, with the shoulders!... How many useless and encumbering words then disappear! What economy!

Her heart was pounding impossibly fast. Then she realized She was feeling both of their hearts, racing each other. A kind of desperate conversation, one they couldn't have with words.