Quotes About Communication

A fragmented film such as 'Babel' gives the impression of 'edginess' but, in its form, tells us nothing we didn't already know.

You want to have that trust with your QB; you want to build that camaraderie throughout your team and just have that relationship with them, so when you're out there, he doesn't have anything to worry about. He tells you to run this route, you run it to the best of your ability and be there for him.

I'd rather have someone who tells me straight up what happens rather than sweet things that I want to hear.

If I'm with my dad, yeah, he's going to talk a good bit about the business. He just kind of mentors me and tells me what he's thinking about my stuff.

How a character hides his feelings tells us something about him.

Film is a living, breathing thing. It's very delicate, and you have to listen and watch for what it tells you.

When people walk in a room, the way they sit or they talk, that itself tells me a story.

If your pal or neighbour is in the SNP, you're more likely to listen to them than if you just turn on the telly and see me or Alex. The growth of membership is building a politically engaged community base that hasn't been there in my lifetime.

If you could make telly as good as radio, it would be amazing - audio can do things so easily that television can't.

You're a good presenter if you know your subject and you can communicate it with passion. Period. That's all that matters on telly.

There are houses where they don't any longer have dining tables. They will sit in front of the telly and eat.

You know when you get into that thing where people want to discuss the relationship? I'd rather discuss what was on telly, avoid the issue, discuss anything other than the relationship.

What's always got me is the fact that when people talked on the telly about Iraq, before Afghanistan kicked off, you'd get only these public-school-type army officers talking about what was going on out there. I kept thinking, 'Why don't we get the true voice of the squaddie? Why don't we hear from the lads on the battlefield?'

I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.

With the likes of social media and outside influences - we're going to be on telly a lot more - I think it's important that you listen to the right people, whether it's your team-mates, your parents, or your coaches, and don't take too much to heart.

I have had people come up to me in the street - one woman actually told me she hated my accent, she can't believe I'm on the telly and my accent is so annoying. I ended up laughing because I thought, 'this person doesn't know me but she felt she could come up and slate my accent.'

I'd like to do radio forever, really. I prefer it to telly. It's more immediate and I'm in control of it all.

You have more freedom on radio. When people used to tell me they preferred radio to TV, I always thought they were making the best of things because they couldn't get any telly work, but now I understand, sort of.

I never really think about myself really, but I hope I'm no different whether it be on the radio or telly or on a podcast. It's about being genuine, and approachable and accessible, not talking at people but with people.

While I can't speak Telugu, I do understand the language.

When I did my first film, I did not understand or speak Telugu.

I can speak Tamil fluently, and the sentence structures in Telugu are quite similar.

I can understand Tamil and Telugu when a conversation is aimed at me, but I cannot hold a conversation.

The fact that I did a Tamil film is going to help me a lot in learning Telugu.