Subtext Quotes

“Every word has a shadow.”

“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.”

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

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

“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 things that are not said.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”