A Quote by Gary Oldman

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

Gary Oldman

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Gary Oldman
English - Actor
Born: March 21, 1958

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

Oscar Isaac

I think the benefit of being a writer is that I'm looking for the subtext on the page, because all good writing has subtext. And as a writer, you look at the big scope of things, the big story, rather than just your individual story line, because I think it's important to know what you're in and how you fit into it.

Richard Dormer

For me really good acting is about subtext.

Clive Owen

I like to really know what every scene is about, what the text is, what the subtext is. Then I figure out how to express that when I'm shooting.

Lesli Linka Glatter

I am not one of those actors who dwells on the histrionics and the subtext and future text of the character. I deal with the scenes that I'm doing at that specific time, because if I do that, they play in more of a real way.

John Barrowman

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.

Brett Morgen

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.

Michael Gambon

Phone calls like ours only happen when you've spent several years hurting and being hurt, until every work you utter or hear becomes coded and loaded, as complicated and full of subtext as a bleak and brilliant play.

Nick Hornby

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

Leslie What

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

Jill Soloway

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.

David Brooks

I think I am more attracted to characters with a subtext, whatever that is and they don't necessarily have to be virtuous, but they have to at least be human.

Clive Owen

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.

Horton Foote

'Ocean's Kingdom' is a fairy story with no subtext, no resonance - it's not about anything except its water-logged plot.

Robert Gottlieb

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. Doesn't say much for acting, does it?

Michael Gambon

With Bound, we wanted to pull at conventions, because you begin to wonder, Why do these stereotypes exist? Where do they come from? You use that as the subtext.

Lana Wachowski

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