Able Quote by David Mamet Download Open image “A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.” — David Mamet ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Able Cinema Communication Dialogue Film Should
It's very rare to get a film script that has good dialogue. A lot of the time, you spend on film sets really fighting… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
After doing two feature films, I got an idea for a thriller film and felt this could be made without any dialogues. — Karthik Subbaraj Copy Share Image
If you try to make a silent movie with a normal script and you just pull out the dialogue, you will have big problems… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
I still haven't quite caught on to the idea of writing without dialogue. I like writing dialogue, and there's nothing wrong with dialogue in… — Kenneth Lonergan Copy Share Image
Sometimes the best thing you could do is a real bad film... you could improvise all over the place and probably only improve the… — Bruce Glover Copy Share Image
It's hard to get an inner dialogue in a film. It's not cinematic. But in a musical, the character can just turn to the… — Marc Platt Copy Share Image
I think actors always find the dialogue doesn't quite fit, so you always have to play with it. — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
What a script says that isn't dialogue is as important as the spoken word. — Vanessa Redgrave Copy Share Image
Actors have to have conversations not just with dialogue but with silences. — Aaron Pedersen Copy Share Image
I'm used to changing a lot of the dialogue. But if I feel like the script is working, I don't want to mess with… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“We cannot live in peace without Law. And though law cannot be perfect, it may be just if it is written in ignorance of… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“Life in the movie business is like the beginning of a new love affair: it's full of surprises, and you're constantly getting fucked.” — David Mamet Copy Share Image
A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any… — Huey Lewis Copy Share Image
I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still… — Nas Copy Share Image
I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be… — Pee Wee Reese Copy Share Image
Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which… — Greg Perry Copy Share Image
I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this… — Emily Browning Copy Share Image
The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
