Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.
It's almost better most times to not talk in a scene. I think you can actually express a lot more without words.
There is a tendency to underestimate the power of what we can do without words. Sometimes you can make a scene even more powerful and precise without dialogue.
The written word is the basic of everything. Most important, the idea, and after that, the dialogue. You can rehash the dialogue as you go along, it 's disgraceful to have to do this, but now and again you have no choice.
Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence.
I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.
Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play.
I found it more challenging to act in a small scene, especially if it has no dialogue and if it is a close-up with only expressions.
No matter how wonderful the story, it has to move on something, and that is language. The words that I use, the pace, the rhythm and cadences all need to be there. If they're not there, the story is like a boat that just sits there and doesn't move on the ocean.
You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking.