Subtext Quotes

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It was like hiking into a Hemingway story; everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext.

Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.

Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.

The emoji still doesn't really speak to the complexity that actually - or the subtext that goes on between when people actually speak face-to-face.

There's no subtext in Harry Potter really; it's all magic, anything can happen. Why do I say this? Because it's a magic spell. It's quite nice in a way. There is a real freedom to it.

For me really good acting is about subtext.

With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.

I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.

I try and make non-fiction films that feel like fiction, so I'm always looking for the subtext and that's what really excites me.

You have to watch out with my plays. They're like yeast. You think they're one thing, then all of a sudden subtext gets to working.

You can sing if you have a great voice, but to connect that instrument to the text and connect it to the subtext, what lies underneath and the emotion, is indeed a rare talent.

As a director, I like trying to unlock the subtext of the scene and try to put the camera in a place that helps that.

I haven't made art about Israel. There's a covert subtext of Jewish identity in my artwork.

With my horror movies or with this movie [Valley of Violence], same thing. The subtext of this movie is what to take away from it. Plot is never something that's been my driving force as a filmmaker.

Despite my affection for subtext and plot and prose at its best... life, it turns out, is nothing more than the finer details.