Communicating Without Words Quotes

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

Silence is a universal language. It's like music or painting.

Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard.

Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent.

Silence is often the most eloquent answer to our critics.

It is silence that most needs an answering -- when I can no longer speak, hear me.

I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

Only silence communicates the truth as it is.

Music is universal; it speaks to people's souls on the deepest level.

There is an instinct that emerges when we get quiet with people. We know who's close.

If there is a doctrine, a message behind Live, it's just that wordless intensity that doesn't necessarily have to mean anything.

Silence is also conversation.

I try to eliminate as much dialogue as possible, and I guess Rambo is my really best experiment with how to eliminate dialogue.

When love is full grown it has few words, and sometimes it growls them out.

The spirit listens only when the speaker speaks in gestures. And gestures do not mean signs or body movements, but acts of true abandon, acts of largesse, of humor. As a gesture to the spirit, warriors bring out the best of themselves and silently offer it to the abstract.

Music is something that is supposed to connect people on a pure level.

if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.

Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.

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

You say it best, when you say nothing at all.

I think that if you can convey a kind of a complexity, a mystery, a truth in stillness, that, to me, is really worth striving for, and I totally agree with Michael Fassbender in that less is more. If it's going on inside you, the camera will find it.

There are all kinds of symbols. Verbal language is only one. Sometimes by opening our mouths, we make dreadful errors. It's often so much nicer just to look at somebody and vibrate.

I'm sounding out the silence, avoiding all the words.

One's ability to communicate a story visually, honestly, is a bridge of communication that transcends language because the true mark of a good film is that you can turn the sound off and watch it and have some understanding of what you're seeing.