David Fincher Quotes

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.

I see tendencies, I see body language.

Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic.

I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.

You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what's really going on or what makes people sometimes do, sometimes, the irrational things they do.

You can tell a lot from someone's eyes.

Make it your profitable habit to carefully study facial expressions. You can see the entire human drama in a face; you can tell its owner's history.

I used to make my living by understanding people. And the way I learned to understand them was by observing them. I would sit in a train station or a bus station or a restaurant. And I would watch people. I would watch how they related to one another. I would try to get some insight into them and make them as predictable as I could in my mind.

I was really interested in observing people. From a young age, I wouldn't listen to what an adult was saying - I was obsessed with other people's body language.

Emotional sounds don't lie.

The art of reading physical tells isn't an exact science.

I think you can tell a lot about people if you observe them as they're observing.

Men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, it's the other way around

It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.

The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard.

Air and manners are more expressive than words.

Acting, in general, is something most people think they're incapable of, but they do it from morning to night. The subtlest acting I've ever seen is by ordinary people trying to show they feel something they don't, or trying to hide something. It's something everyone learns at an early age.

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 love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

I'm a world-class people watcher. I like to watch people's body movements, their expressions. It says so much about them.

Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even start speaking.

There are women to whom nature has granted the gift of silent emotion. They have mobile faces, changeful eyes, soft lips, which express joy or desolation naturally, and with the charm of perfect simplicity and truth.

I love observing people.

I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions.

I'm good at reading people.