Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.
Quotes about subtext (13 Quotes)
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.
Clashes and vitriol only make it worse. I think what we must learn to do is to read the imagery. We need to analyze and understand the subtext.
It wasn't just about mastering English. It was about shading, subtext and subtlety - all the things that make a great actor.
The Oscar voter wants to be on the winning side, but maybe there is an unspoken subtext this year of enough with these 'homosexual persecution movies.' But how can you judge the unspoken factor -- being politically incorrect in Hollywood.
People who had heard about it had a chance to ... catch up and see what they missed over the summer. Also, it's got an extraordinarily strong fan culture around the show. ... There's lots of subtext, which is what fan cultures love.
Personally, I don't think we could do such a show if we didn't get along. The subtext of all this is that we're women in a show so we can't possibly get along. It's not like they write about The Sopranos like that.
The subtext of Danforth's report was that if the Waco episode had any valuable lesson, it was that government should come clean about what it knows. When federal authorities refused to admit early on that three pyrotechnic rounds had been fired at the Mount Carmel compound, it tainted their credibility. We want them to learn from this experience the importance of candor, even about very small things, ... Yet government officials were not open enough then They weren't candid enough, they didn't tell, they knew things and they didn't disclose those things, and the result of that is that those who want to believe the worst about government say, 'Aha, this is something that is really bad.' And if government lies about one thing, it will lie about everything, so everything is suspicious. I think the lesson is that government has to be open.
The movie is about one ruthless individual. 'The Godfather' is more like a family epic. It has this subtext of family honor. With 'Scarface,' there's this individualism thing. The film is about cold-blooded ambition. There's a lot of connection between the values of the movie and the values of hip-hop.
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.
I suppose from my point of view, (they are) two people that were thrown in together in a friendship in spite of themselves, in one sense flip sides of the same coin, ... Their weaknesses are sort of complemented by the strengths of the other one, and vice versa. They don't accept this, they don't recognize it, but it's just the subtext of their relationship itself.
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.
The generation that's 20 years old doesn't need the subtext of a sitcom,