Showing Not Telling Quotes

A lot of people tend to chew up the scenery. I'm a firm believer in less is more, especially on the big screen.

I do not say with words. I do not say it with images either.… I do not say, I show. I show people who move and speak. That is all I know how to do, but that is my true subject.

At writing workshops, they taught us to show, not tell - well, showing takes time.

'Kimmy' first and foremost is a show about a woman overcoming the odds. I think that they write the show in a way that you're not beaten over the head with it, but showing and not telling. I think that's really powerful.

Grown-up people do very little and say a great deal.... Toddlers say very little and do a great deal.... With a toddler you cannot explain, you have to show. You cannot send, you have to take. You cannot control with words, you have to use your body.

I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.

It's a good challenge as an actor to express feelings without saying too many words.

When you do not have the dialogue to explain things, you will use everything to show and to tell the story. I think that this is what makes you believe that it is impeccable.

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.

It's almost better most times to not talk in a scene. I think you can actually express a lot more without words.

Film can be more of a reality than a page with words can ever be.

I don't want to talk too much. I want to show it on the pitch.

Describe character using dialogue. Describe character using what the characters see or do or think, but not what they had done or where they had been.

I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in life - they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing - which was redundant.