Quotes About Communication

I work best when people are here to puncture me

Everyone says, "You have to work at relationships." Sometimes you've got to work, but if you're working 60 percent of the time and only enjoying it 40 percent...

Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.

When I see friends of mine break up and they're like, "Oh, we still really love each other, but we just couldn't make it work," I don't get that. I don't understand what that means. Make it work.

I've been pretty transparent with all that I've done. I think my work speaks a lot for who I am. So, I don't think there's a particular thing I'd like them to know.

Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.

If you really love someone, you shouldn't have to work at it, you finish each others' sentences and have the same sense of humor.

Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship; you are very much in love with someone, but it's making you unhappy and you think things can change and you can work it out.

You have work at being a couple.

I hate, for example, whenever you hear someone say, 'You have work at being a couple.'

I really like to work with people who know a lot, but they also give me space so I can add something to the movie.

When you're younger, you feel like work is work and relationships are supposed to be easy. As you get older, you realize you have to work at relationships to make them sustainable.

I don't believe that you can possibly separate expression from thought in an imaginative work. The better a thing is expressed, the more completely it is thought.

Since we've done that type of work [ voiceover], we know how isolating it can be, and we wanted to make the actors more comfortable.

When I commit to working with an artist, I give them as much respect as I would like and if I'm not going to commit that way, then I don't want to work with you.

I tremendously admire, and I think we all should, the great work done by our commander in chief, our president George Bush...

Nothing you can't spell will ever work.

Usually when you meet with a director, just meeting them after you've seen something you're interested in, they say, "Oh I'd love to work together," and sometimes you never hear from them again.

For some reason, I seem to work well with actors. I love working with them.

Writing is hard work.

When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.

You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.

Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.

I don't want to name any names, but I've worked on television shows where there's a guy writing for my generation who's like 60 - and it doesn't work.