Bill Buford Quotes

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

You can almost read any emotion through someone's eyes.

It's wonderful to move forward technologically, but we cannot forget that we are human beings who thrive on relationships, who thrive on interconnectivity, who thrive on sharing your feelings and emotions.

An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy. ... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

Sometimes your body language is enough for an actor to know that you're not happy. And you don't really need to say it out loud if you deal with actors you know very well. And I don't think you really need to be explicit.

I think we're always looking for an excuse to connect.

I listen to the audience and try and bounce with them. All audiences are different. But they are all homo sapiens.

Part of the fun of life is interacting with people and not knowing what the truth is inside. Letting them reveal that to you is what binds you to people.

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

We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or get angry. But for the most part, we find it difficult to read each other most of the time. If you walk through the street, most people are pretty difficult to read. But they're thinking inside.

When I sit and talk with a person, I'm not always paying attention. I'm looking at the person and saying, 'What is it about his or her life that appeals to me?'

What I like in novels that I read and enjoy is interplay of theme: the mystery of how we seem to be so separate as human beings.

I cannot stress enough that the answer to life's questions is often in people's faces. Try putting your iPhones down once in a while, and look in people's faces. People's faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry, or nauseous or asleep.

I'm interested in what bonds people together. You know, what brings us together in good ways? And there's not a lot known about that.

In our ordinary experiences with other people, we know that approaching each other in a machinelike way gets us into trouble.

To a guy like me, a laugh is full of information.

You can't express emotion without giving information.

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.

People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion.

In this respect I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry. With his very emotive body language at the board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't.

Watch how you communicate with a woman. Because you're always communicating, even when you're not talking - with your body language, your facial expressions, your eyes.

We think the whole world's going to change, and forget that human beings are still human beings; we have the same five senses, we still interact the same way, we still love and hate the same way, but marketers lose track of that. But then it comes down to earth.

Women communicate with all their senses. Men don't do that.

I'm very interested in the way people interact emotionally.

Face-to-face conversation unfolds slowly. It teaches patience.