Characteristics Quote by Tom Wilkinson

When it comes to thinking about how a character talks, there are literary and language considerations. For actors to be able to differentiate between…

— Mike Leigh

Quite often in acting, you have to play a certain part; you cannot speak as much as you want to speak.

— Sylvester Stallone

I think I've always been drawn to the notion of talk as cinematic.

— Noah Baumbach

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

Theatre is highly satisfying in terms of words. You get to speak in monologues; words drive the action.

— Sarita Choudhury

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

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

I think a play can do almost anything, because it's also a static form, much more so than in a movie. In a movie…

— Jules Feiffer

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

Once you see the entertainment world from both sides, you really get a greater understanding of how it all operates. As an actor going…

— John Francis Daley

Play is a medium of word and film is a medium of picture.

— Paresh Rawal

For a long time now, movie characters have generally been articulate, even chatty. Call it the influence of Woody Allen, but we have become…

— Michelle Dean