Juliette Lewis Quotes

Ser compreendido é prostituir-se.

One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.

The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.

I've always been someone who really watches other people, human behavior. To watch it and be able to express it through your version has always been really exciting to me.

I understand and I don't understand human beings.

You can't tell what a man is like or what he is thinking when you are looking at him. You must get around behind him and see what he has been looking at.

He's very nice. He's something I replied. She considered this zipping her purse shut. Then she said Well everyone is. Everyone is Something. For some reason that stuck with me simple and yet not every since she'd said it. It was like a puzzle as well two vague words with one clear one between them.

There is a difference between being listened to and being heard.

Those who cannot hear an angry shout may strain to hear a whisper.

You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.

When it comes to people -- don't write about who you know; but what you know of human nature.

The reason I love acting is because I feel like acting is all about listening.

My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves.

How can one know anything at all about people?

I look at you and I write down what I hear.

I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.

According as the man is, so must you humour him.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature. I feel very lucky that as a writer I get to learn so much about it just to do my job right.

'Arrival' talks very little about language and how to precisely dissect a foreign language. It's more a film on intuition and communication by intuition, the language of intuition.

If you can hear music, you can hear the musicality of the way someone speaks. It's easier to nail down the way that they talk. So much of it is listening, just like in acting. If you're listening, you pick up the nuance of why a person behaves the way that they behave.

A helpful thing for me has always been - this is from a great acting teacher Declan Donnellan - is this beautiful way of expressing how and why people do things that other people may not do. It's a simple sentence that says, 'I understand you; you don't understand me.'