Physical Communication Quotes

Dance is the purest expression of every emotion, earthly and spiritual

Ah, if you could dance all that you've just said, then I'd understand.

Viewing movies in very slow motion, looking for synchrony, one realizes that what we know as dance is really a slowed-down, stylized version of what human beings do whenever they interact.

Dancing is like - it's another way of communicating, no?

I describe things in terms of body movements. I dance a bit to describe what sort of movement it ought to make, and that's a good way of talking to musicians. Particularly bass players.

Dance expresses joy better than anything else.

If language was given to men to conceal their thoughts, then gesture's purpose was to disclose them.

The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual - as we think so will we act.

Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.

We were very clear that this film's [Young Adam] so much about a relationship that's borne out through the sexual contact, and that that's the way they communicate.

There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.

I've never sent an email to anybody. I believe in keeping the postman in work.

Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.

That which is communicated, i.e., understood, is metaphysical. The means of communication is physical.

And if you had no tongue, no celebrating language, you’d do this: cross your hands at the wrist with palms facing towards you; place your crossed wrists over your heart (the middle of your chest, anyway); then move your hands outwards a short distance, and open them towards the object of your love. It’s just as eloquent as speech.

Sex is just another form of talk, where you act the words instead of saying them.

..he made me understand something very important. Whether because I am a Latin, or because I am a neurotic, I have a need of gestures. I am myself expressive, demonstrative; every feeling I have takes on expression: words, gestures, signs, letters, articulateness or action. I need this in others.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.

Movement is expressive. I've never denied that. I don't think there's such a thing as abstract dance.

If you're sounding right, you're probably walking right, and vice versa. If you get the footwork right - if you get even one line right in a rehearsal, the director will say, do you know when you said that, it was exactly the character. You were - really landed on it.

Most women don't play like guys do: they don't wrestle, fight, get into brawls. They don't know how to express themselves in a physical, active way.

A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture, belonging to nobody else), nor can it even be regarded as that person's instrument; on the contrary, it is gestures that use us as their instruments, as their bearers and incarnations

I talk with my body in the Octagon the day of the fight.

Part of the reason why I love to operate is because I find that so much of what we do is instinctual. It's dancing with the actors and responding to their body language, and you feel what the right place for the camera is at any given moment.

If only all our conflicts could be resolved with a few grunts and a smack in the ass.