Philip Glenister Quotes

Your internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. It's always the unspoken word and what's happening behind someone's eyes that makes it so rich.

The script will point you in certain directions and I go the opposite if I can. I try do do one thing and tell a different story with my eyes. I believe what's more interesting is always what's not being said.

What isn't said is as important as what is said.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down.

Even silence speaks.

As much as movies are about the words that you're saying, they're also about what's not said, the silent moments.

In a Western, you talk more with your eyes and your actions than you do with big speeches. I love that.

I'm obsessed with subtexts. I love that we often don't say what we feel. That gap between the two. I like it when actors reveal a lot without having to say it.

In dialogue scenes, my favorite moments are when people aren't talking because you can cut to the heart of the matter much more quickly, often with a look. People hide things in words. When you don't have words to hide things in, it becomes much more direct and much more immediate of a connection.

There are times in life when language fails us, when everything that needs to be said can be expressed only by saying nothing at all.

In Chinese, there are an impressive number of ways to describe saying nothing at all.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.

There is a tendency to underestimate the power of what we can do without words. Sometimes you can make a scene even more powerful and precise without dialogue.

Often it is important to listen to what people aren't saying.

It's what people don't say that is often the most revealing.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways.

When you go to a movie, it's about what's not being said. I tried to bring that to Greg Sumner. It was always about what's not being said.

Silence is also conversation.

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

I think there's a great deal of information you can convey with looks or silence.

Dialogue is not always the best way to show emotion, to show your thought process, or to reveal yourself, as a character.