If you look at my body of work, there's always a dark side to my characters. They've always got a skeleton in… — Tony Scott Copy Share Image
“Despite my affection for subtext and plot and prose at its best... life, it turns out, is nothing more than the finer… — Bailey Vincent Copy Share Image
You have to watch out with my plays. They're like yeast. You think they're one thing, then all of a sudden subtext… — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
Sometimes I even feel funny to say I'm in a biracial marriage because people are like, 'Oh, he's Asian?' The subtext is,… — Diane Farr Copy Share Image
“After you've spent four years kissing somebody's perineum, the subtext talks louder than words.” — Steve Kluger Copy Share Image
I do tend to be an analyzer. I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
As a director, I like trying to unlock the subtext of the scene and try to put the camera in a place… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
With Bound, we wanted to pull at conventions, because you begin to wonder, Why do these stereotypes exist? Where do they come… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dr. Everest, got up and gave us a little pep talk. Mostly it boiled down to the fact that it was autumn,… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
... somehow I couldn't stop. I had turned into someone that I would have pitied in another life; someone who searched for… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
If you know why someone is doing what they're doing, why they're behaving the way they are, then that's your job to… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
I am obsessed with story. I had a late awakening in life. In college was the first time that I understood what… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
I think the benefit of being a writer is that I'm looking for the subtext on the page, because all good writing… — Richard Dormer Copy Share Image
I am not one of those actors who dwells on the histrionics and the subtext and future text of the character. I… — John Barrowman Copy Share Image
“What Zach meant to say all along, what he means to say when he speaks of potatoes with cumin is, You strip… — Emma Richler Copy Share Image
I started with wanting to think about witches, about strong women who have special powers - who are often misunderstood. Then I… — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
It starts with the writing. We have to think of all these characters - we have to treat them all equally. We… — Cliff Chiang Copy Share Image
Liberal, shmiberal. That should be a new word. Shmiberal: one who is assumed liberal, just because he's a professional whiner in the… — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
I've always been a character actor, although I'm not quite sure what that means. All my scripts are absolutely covered in notes,… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
The brand is lying about something, or at least misrepresenting it. When I read a bottle of shampoo or moisturizer or other… — Aaron Belz Copy Share Image
“If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic…Authors… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
He'd only been gone two seconds, but the room got brighter when they were together, as if they were two elements that… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I love thinking about things subtextually and I actually - like for instance when I write, I actually, I'm not very analytical… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I moved to leave, and Dylan actually grabbed my shoulders. I was so surprised that i forgot to karate-chop his elbows and… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“I really don't like art with a message, unless the message is crystal clear. If you have a message that really needs… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
I haven't made art about Israel. There's a covert subtext of Jewish identity in my artwork. — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly. — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners. — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
The emoji still doesn't really speak to the complexity that actually - or the subtext that goes on between when people actually… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image. — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
I think I am more attracted to characters with a subtext, whatever that is and they don't necessarily have to be virtuous,… — Clive Owen Copy Share Image
As an actor, you are always looking for subtext, for layers, for what's going on underneath. — Antje Traue Copy Share Image
I try and make non-fiction films that feel like fiction, so I'm always looking for the subtext and that's what really excites… — Brett Morgen Copy Share Image
'Ocean's Kingdom' is a fairy story with no subtext, no resonance - it's not about anything except its water-logged plot. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
It was like hiking into a Hemingway story; everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext. — Leslie What Copy Share Image
“I like books. I thought you liked books." "Let's be honest, Rudy, books are pornography for brains. All that subtext and bullshit… — Hannah Moskowitz Copy Share Image
Phone calls like ours only happen when you've spent several years hurting and being hurt, until every work you utter or hear… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
