Garth Stein Quotes

Body language is so important, as is composition. You can not say something, and then the body reacts, and it says a lot of things dialogue can also say.

Nothing is more revealing than movement.

What concerns me is that man, unable to articulate, to express himself adequately, reverts to action. Since the vocabulary of action is limited, as it were, to his body, he is bound to act violently, extending his vocabulary with a weapon where there should have been an adjective.

My method is to find a word with a gesture.

Hands have their own language.

The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual - as we think so will we act.

Sometimes it's easier to show than it is to tell.

I think the main thing was that the character couldn't speak in regular language, so he had to be mimed.

In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.

I think that words are often extraneous to what I do.

Body language is more fascinating to me than actual language.

The body is a universal language. Because if you spoke French, and I speak English, but I move like this or do certain movements, I can still make you smile and laugh.

We communicate all the time, even when we don't realize it. Be aware of body language

Let me hear your body talk.

Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.

The things one can express with the hand, with the head, with the shoulders!... How many useless and encumbering words then disappear! What economy!

I drink coffee with my right hand, and I smoke with my left. But I talk with both hands.

Movements are as eloquent as words.

Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.

It is really hard to completely re-learn how to express yourself without using words. When you take away speech, you have to re-invent the way you express yourself. You have to exaggerate your body language and your facial expressions.

I like my hands. They do most of the talking.

In any interview, you do say more or less than you mean.

Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.

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

It's not that I don't like words. There's sometimes no need for words.