Character Quote by Sergio Leone

Once you're involved in the work, it's really just you and the characters and the words.

— Edwidge Danticat

Musicians have to do what they do and express it musically. All the blah blah blah will get lost in the dialogue.

— Carlos Alomar

Every musical phrase has a purpose. It's like talking. If you talk with a particular purpose, people listen to you, but if you just…

— Itzhak Perlman

I think what interests me the most is when the two things are developed at the same time, which certainly feels natural for the…

— Matthew Barney

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression - all of that…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

For me, I'm not a great wordsmith, and so maybe from lack of great dialogue writing, I thought it's easier and better to express…

— Genndy Tartakovsky

Usually in theater, the visual repeats the verbal. The visual dwindles into decoration. But I think with my eyes. For me, the visual is…

— Robert Wilson

Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual…

— Kenneth Branagh

It's much more fun as an actor, as well. If everything is on the page and you're spoon-feeding an audience you feel like your…

— Tom Hughes

It's one thing to be saying what you're saying in music because it's art coupled with a lot of different things. Whether you're trying…

— B-Real

Sometimes, the better writing comes when the song speaks through me and tells me what the song wants to say.

— Rodney Crowell

If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.

— Aulis Sallinen