Silent Narrative Quotes

What I don't write is as important as what I write.

My major aim was to shape a book which would make its own comment, a wordless statement: to talk through the way it was shaped.

I do not say with words. I do not say it with images either.… I do not say, I show. I show people who move and speak. That is all I know how to do, but that is my true subject.

There's something really emotional about not having any sound. That allows, I think, the audience to participate more actively and kind of imagine what are they talking about there?

Turn off the sound in a movie, and if you can tell what's going on, the movie should work.

I see my work behind the camera as the actualization of a poem. I like to linger on images, conveying things through stillness.

The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.

The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.

A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.

The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.

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

The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying.

I understand why people went nuts for 'The Artist.' We use words so much, it's nice to be able to explore a different way of communication, to be able to express silently what someone - or something - is thinking or feeling.

It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale.

If you have to tell a story without speaking, it's sort of like - I come from a dance background, so it's like a ballet where you have to tell a story with just your body. I think that's really interesting to have to tell a story with just your face and your mannerisms, and I'd like to tap into that world.

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

The subject of the novel is reality liberated from soul. The reader in complete independence presented with a structured process:let him evaluate it, not the author. The façade of the novel cannot be other than stone or steel, flashing electrically or dark, but silent.

BoJack especially is a very dialogue based show. A lot of the comedy comes from conversations, and a lot of story comes from misunderstandings and people trying to connect with each other, and there was a really interesting challenge trying to write a script with no dialogue.

The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is written can give the illusion that you are reading also what is not written.

I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

I found in making and directing films that the less you have voiceover, the better it is.

Film is anti-language.

I always think about visual comedy. I was raised watching silents, and I'm always thinking about how to make cinema, not good talking - although I want good talking. I'm much more interested in framing, composition, and orchestration of bodies in space, and so forth. My goal is always what Chuck Jones wanted his Warner Brothers cartoons to be, which was if you turn down the sound, you could still tell what's going on.