Subtext Quotes

“The best of poetry is always about something else.”

“I think that the best stories are loaded with hints and secrets and suggestions and subtexts. You have to be able to read between the lines.”

“I think the best horror movies are the ones that are about something else.”

“What is important is what is not said.”

“I'm interested in the gap between what people say and what they mean.”

“Every word has a shadow.”

“I'm interested in the things that are not said, the secrets.”

“I'm interested in the things that are not said.”

“I think that there's a lot of things that are not said that are playing out in a scene. I like that.”

“I'm interested in the things that are not said, the space between the words.”

“I was always interested in the subtext of a scene, the things that weren't being said.”

“The life of the drama is not in the words but in the transaction between the lines.”

“The subtext is the meaning. It is what the play is about.”

“There is so much power in the unspoken things between people.”

“The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don't hear.”

“What I try to do is to show the unspoken, the thing that is not said, that is lived.”

“I'm interested in the things that are not said, the gaps between the words.”

“I'm interested in the things that people can't say.”

“Beneath the banal conversation, the apparently commonplace gestures, I wanted to show a world of paltry dramas, of petty obsessions, of mute tragedies.”