Dialogue Interpretation Quotes

I think actors always find the dialogue doesn't quite fit, so you always have to play with it.

So perhaps the correct conclusion is that Green was less attuned to how people sound when they speak - the actual words and expressions they employ - than to what they mean. This notion of dialogue as a pure expression of character that...transcends the specifics of time and place may be partly why the conversations in the works of writers such as Austen and Bronte often sound fresh and astonishingly contemporary.

I do remember when I first read the script of the 92 In The Shade. I was in the house at Nicholas Beach, and that gang was starting to break up, and I read this terribly well-written dialogue, not figuring out that films are about structure and the thing was totally unstructured, and I thought, "Who is this writer? God, he's great."

I know it's boring to say this but I always start with the script. I mean if it's well written and it's a character that I haven't necessarily played before.

The film language is still in development and the traditional dialogue is the biggest problem because nobody knows how to interpret it in 3D world.

An actor doesn't change thought, theme, or mood unless the character does, and the character only does it within the words of the play.

When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.

In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.

I have 16 plays, and we don't ever do subtitles. You can't do subtitles in the theater, so I was like, 'I'm not gonna do subtitles.' You'll never lose the story. There might be a little joke that you might miss, but you'll never miss the story, even in the Spanglish of it.

Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what's beneath the word.