Quotes About Communication

Fashion choices are never arbitrary. Even if you say you don't care, that's a decision. There's something you're trying to say.

Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.

I usually speak with all my drummers so that I write my songs with them in mind, and we'll have bass sounds, choir sounds, and then you can multi-task with all these orchestral sounds. Through the magic medium of technology, I can play all kinds of sounds - double bass and stuff.

In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?

Not taking those few moments in the morning to decide what you're saying to people by how you're choosing to dress is a lost opportunity.

I like to sit and talk to someone, and if they want to write about it, OK. But when it's a chore, I have a choice. There's a choice for all of us, including me.

When you have a platform and people listen, it's very important what you chose to say.

I've chosen difficult men. But then I'm sure they'd say they'd chosen a difficult woman.

From the beginning, music has been the chosen way to express feelings that words alone can't.

I could use a Chris Matthews-level speech writer to script everything I say. That would be good.

My son Chris said he was 12 years old before he knew what I did for a living.

There's not a lot of comics with anything to say. It's entertaining, but when you think of Chris Rock, Richard Pryor or Bill Cosby, they all had something to say.

I think many times Christians don't really take the opportunity to hear what people are saying and seeing in the world around them.

That is the idea that good Christians don't talk about sex, at least not out loud, and certainly not in the church. I want to say that both of those ideas are fallacious.

The media is not the most Christian-friendly place in the world for the most part. At the same time, a lot of these Christians bring it on themselves.

I came out to my dad in Christmas of '94.

I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it.

Christopher Daniels does not do Facebook. I have a Facebook page but I very rarely use it, because I don't go on the computer a lot at home.

For me, cinema's like a language - everyone has their own form of it.

I prefer being called director Aishwarya Dhanush's husband. She and I share our passion for cinema, but at home, we hardly talk about it. Instead, we share other interests.

I don't know one lens from another. That's not my job. It's the cinematographer's job. But I can talk to people.

I'm not really in Louis CK's circle. It'd probably be harder if we were really close and I went off on him.

I don't know how to put it, but I don't have many friends. All my friends circle was in Madras, and I lost touch with them. But I'm friends with all my directors, and they are very important for me.

Most people think it's a linear relationship: I speak, you listen. Actually, it's a circle, because the way you listen affects how I speak, and the way I speak affects the way you listen.