Body Quote by Dakota Fanning

In cinema we have all kinds of ways of communicating: cinematography, lighting, character performance. If you pay attention to silent era movie actors, they…

— Jenova Chen

One's ability to communicate a story visually, honestly, is a bridge of communication that transcends language because the true mark of a good film…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

It's through this medium of film that many of us learn about and communicate with one another, especially with people we don't know.

— Nia DaCosta

In a film we have limited time and space to say what we have to, hence the visual language and brevity needs to be…

— Kanika Dhillon

For me cinema is image, sound, and the faces and bodies and, yes, voices, of my actors, and sometimes the words that they are…

— Julia Loktev

There's always so much more that can be conveyed on screen visually in the expressions of people's faces, in their bodies, in their body…

— Lynn Shelton

For me, the perfect film has no dialogue at all. It's purely a visual, emotional, visceral kind of experience. And I think one can…

— Bill Plympton

One of my favorite things to do is not to speak on screen. In theater it's different because there's a lot of emphasis on…

— Linda Cardellini

I find movies rely upon dialogue too much sometimes, and you lose the power of what really the most basic cinematic language is, which…

— Todd Haynes

We all know the power of film; we all know there's almost nothing more powerful than to see people on film that look and…

— Mira Nair

Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even start speaking.

— Peter Guber

You have to learn to express differently. Whenever I do TV or film, I ask if I can see the shot to see, to…

— Denis O'Hare