Tone Consistency Quotes

I went pretty much for one tone, and I knew at that time that I wanted to play a Rickenbacker.

I don't think the expectation is that the 'Psych' musical is going to be 'Rent,' so I think as long as we didn't completely humiliate ourselves and it is funny and it is in the tone of what we do, we'd have a fighting chance of pulling it off.

It's not just about the words you use, but the way you use them, and the message that puts over. Also your face too and the way you project your message. If you're telling the group to stay calm, be good, and you have beads of sweat dripping down your forehead, you're in trouble.

You had to make sure that the tone of your dress was not the same tone as the curtains, for instance.

It's funny, because people always say when they meet me, having read me - or they read me, having met me - that they are struck by how the tone is pretty similar, in real life and in the books.

Comedy is all about rhythm and context, and there's all types of comedies, and it's about finding that right brand, that consistency in tone.

What's hard in movies is to have a consistent tone throughout a movie. Whatever that is.

The interaction between the two matters, but to me, each doesn't really exist independently of the other, so I'm not ever faced with a situation where the tone is wrong for the story, or the story wrong for the tone. They are two parts of one thing.

A lot of TV and film commits to one tone.

I think when you work with people who are super exceptional, there's simplicity to it because everybody is on the same page in terms of tone.

If a writer is always trying to keep a narrator emitting a tone of complete knowingness, it can become false.

There's a thing, in general, about doing any kind of series, especially when the characters remain the same. It's just that you can go back and try and improve whatever you did in the last movie, which never happens. That tone or work ethic is nice.

There's no one way of telling a story or looking at reality, so I think any device is up for grabs as long as it fits in with the tone.

We shouldn't be chasing other movies, but stay true to the tone of Man of Steel.

I want to make a series of movies that run together, so if any crazy lunatic wants to watch them all in a row, there will be a consistency of tone.

When you're shooting 20-odd episodes in a season, the last thing you want is for each script to be the same tone.

You have to find the tone of the piece and modulate that. There are ways to indicate that - I try to incorporate the biggest range I can within the story, going from humorous to serious without it being jarring. That's the hardest part, to keep that balance. It requires being constantly aware of where you are in the story. You can't really do that in a movie: You can't slightly modulate the tone by the way the character's eyeballs look in one certain scene.