Minimal Dialogue Quotes

I don't think Batman should spend a whole movie yapping, you know? He should choose his words carefully and speak low.

One of the amazing things about 'Seven Samurai' is that there are a lot of characters. And considering you have so many, and they all have shaved heads, and you've got good guys and bad guys and peasants, you get to understand a lot of them without too much being said.

There are certain things that I will do viscerally to affect people emotionally, with speed changes and sound, and various other things. Sure there are links; the same kind of sensibilities went into it and I worked on writing that script as well so there was an emphasis on a minimalisation of dialogue as far as possible, to focus on the visual and to put it in another language, of course.

I try and let the film do the talking.

I like telling the story in a visual way. I don't like explaining a lot in dialogue.

I supply a presence. There are never any long dialogue scenes to establish a character.

As a cinematographer, I was always attracted to stories that have the potential to be told with as few words as possible.

With my characters, I prefer to not say too much, and in fact, I tend to cut down some of the lines in most scripts I get.

You want to say as little as you can and get the most punch out of it, always with the knowledge that people are not in the theater to listen to your music so much as to respond to the movie. You're a part of that experience.

You can't steal every scene. There are scenes in which you need to sit back and do a lot less, verbally, physically.

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

My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.

At any filmmaking class, you learn the power of the visual medium and are always trying to minimise the words.

I love scenes with minimal dialogue.

I made several short films with very little dialogue. I'm still not a fan of talking heads. My stories are told with images as much as possible.

I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way.

In a Western, you talk more with your eyes and your actions than you do with big speeches. I love that.

There are very few films that I've ever seen in my life that would be as silent or vacant as something like Jeremiah Johnson, and that to me was unbelievably captivating. You can see the same about [The Outlaw] Josey Wales: there's very little dialogue, and yet it contains such a deep, rich story. I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.

The less lines, the better. I am the silent film actor, but not in a slapstick sort of way. Film is an image-based medium, so whatever you can say without the words is far more provocative and punctuating. If the lines are not funny or if they don't advance the story, sometimes it's hard. I hate talk in movies.