Actors Quote by Michel Hazanavicius

The way you can see what an actor brings to a role is you turn the sound off. Everything else becomes subtext, the wink…

— John de Lancie

When you're on set and you professionally listen to what the other actors have to say, then the emotion is naturally evoked.

— Shailene Woodley

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going…

— Alfred Hitchcock

Music can help uncover that tone that's in the fabric of the movie. Sometimes it's very plain to see, sometimes it's not.

— James Newton Howard

Some producers hang-on to that old cliche that if the audience hears the music, it is no good. I say this is so much…

— Henry Mancini

The secrets that the characters hold are held back from the audience, and that's such a delight to hold onto. When you're playing scenes,…

— Tom Hughes

Movie characters rarely get to think out loud or talk very much about their emotions. Instead they have to, very briefly, show their feelings…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

I've been making films with almost no dialogue (laughs), so sound and music become a very powerful character to tell the story. It's almost…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

If a play is good and you're effective in it, you suddenly hear a silence that is loud, and that moment makes the whole…

— Shelley Winters

During the actual filming, I’m not really listening to dialogue. I’m watching to see if the actors are communicating something and expressing something. I’m…

— John Cassavetes

Actors are such wonderful creatures and such wonderful instruments. It's always different on the page, or in my head. I hear it differently. I…

— Kelly Masterson

It's dialogue that gives your cast their voices, and is crucial in defining their characters.

— Stephen King