Character Quote by Peter Mayhew

Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.

— Virginia Woolf

Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.

— Carson McCullers

It was always about the story rather than the character.

— Jean Dujardin

Each actor requires a different language.

— Oliver Stone

There's so much of, it could have been a very critical examination of what happened, and really the emotional lives of the people involved…

— Jeremy Northam

“He had been taught that language was essentially inadequate, that it could never speak what was there, that it only spoke itself. He thought…

— A.S. Byatt

I wanted more in depth ideas about the character and it never came.

— Nicholas Lea

The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.

— Yann Martel

“He'd shot and beaten people because he couldn't talk to them.Violence was the only language nobody could understand. There were no translators.”

— James Meek

The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again,…

— Joel Coen

A lot of them [Germaqn actors] could come in and we could speak for the next nine hours in English and there would be…

— Quentin Tarantino

He could hardly read or write but his heart spoke the language of the good

— Primo Levi