I've never made a film using dialogue or speech.
Usually, I'll drop twenty to forty per cent of the dialogue - you can do so much with gesture. I'm still waiting to do a silent film.
There's something very strange and wrong-seeming about drawing realistic eyeballs in comics, at least in the mode of comics where action is carried more by the movement of the characters rather than where narration links disparately framed selected images.
The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
In silent films, quite complex plots are built around action, setting, and the actors' gestures and facial expressions, with a very few storyboards to nail down specific plot points.
After doing two feature films, I got an idea for a thriller film and felt this could be made without any dialogues.
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 found in making and directing films that the less you have voiceover, the better it is.
I love scenes with minimal dialogue.
