Overexplaining Quotes

So I went way too in depth? I thought they wanted the hole by hole.

Ask him what time it is and he'll tell you how the watch was made.

We shouldn't confuse singers and performers with actors. Actors will say, "My character this, and my character that." Like beating a dead horse. Who cares about the character? Just get up and act. You don't have to explain it to me.

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

Not all. Some of them he probably lectured to death.

When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins.

I am tired of talking about what I do or what I am going to do.

I think there is a lot of overexplaining both in writing and acting. People don't need to be hit on the head.

Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.

Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

If you say three things, you don't say anything.

I do read some of the scripts from America and, even though the themes or subject of the film is very interesting, and some of the scenes are very interesting, there is a tendency that they have to explain everything. There will be no dilemma. This guy was evil, and this girl was very sweet. And in the end, we'd have to see eight endings because we'd also have to know what happened to the uncle. It's like, "Are you kidding me?!"

Ever since the introduction of psychoanalysis there have been too many terms to excuse behavior and phrases that can be [used] to explain everything.

He was a guy who talked with commas, like a heavy novel. Over the phone anyway.

I feel, in storytelling, people are so afraid that you won't get it unless you pound them over the head.

My scripts are possibly too talkative. Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, 'Oh, for God's sake, shut up.'

You have to avoid what I call the 'smartest boy in class syndrome,' which is, just because you know it, you don't have to tell it. I often will go through a manuscript crossing stuff out, and say, 'This is just too much,' you know?

When you try to communicate too many ideas, sometimes you wind up communicating nothing.

I was always annoyed by too much explaining.

I do read some of the scripts from America and, even though the themes or subject of the film is very interesting, and some of the scenes are very interesting, there is a tendency that they have to explain everything. There will be no dilemma.

Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument.

Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.

What frustrates me a lot about some aspects of filmmaking is people thinking everyone is really dumb and that we have to make everything really obvious.

Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer.