Quotes About Communication

Only in a concert situation do I have access to people directly to preach to them, and I don't believe that the bigger your platform is, the more people will pay attention.

Now I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that, otherwise you end up preaching down.

My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.

Radio, in a way, is preaching.

I'm a big believer in,'If anyone can understand my politics, I've failed.' If you can get a sense of which side of the fence I'm on, then I'm not doing a service. I'm preaching, and that's not my job.

I don't ever preach to people.

I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that; otherwise, you end up preaching down. You need to listen not so much to the audience but to the story itself.

'Hairspray' maybe did change people's minds, and that's how you get your political enemies to change their minds - by making them laugh and making them look at something in a way they haven't seen it. Not by preaching and cutting them off and being a separatist.

The thing for me is to always tell the truth. Not to preach, but to tell the truth.

My kids don't listen to me when I preach at them. But if I tell them a story they can pull something from, that matters.

I don't want to preach to anyone, because if someone preaches to me, I just turn off - I've been preached to my whole life.

Whenever you try to preach something, people will not accept or invite it into their lives. But if it is said in a light way, people understand it better, and it is as true for films as it is for life.

I do research, I read books. I write down everything that I intend to say and this may take several hours. Then when I am out there preaching, I do not carry notes.

The point is movies can teach a lot without preaching.

We don't preach, but we just tell you what we think, and it provokes thought.

I'd never go up to somebody and start preaching, but if somebody asks I'm willing to talk about it. Often, after people have seen me praying, they'll ask and it's a chance to show how normal prayer time is and why we do it, to teach people about the religion. Not to try to change them, but to explain.

I try not to be someone who's preaching a message with my films or anything like that.

Rap is good for politics because when you make a rap record, you put good music on a track and people listen to you. It's easier than trying to preach.

Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.

I'm a little long-winded. My dad is a preacher, my mom is Italian, so I come by it naturally.

With all respect, I'm sure that we have enough preachers in the world. Through my way of writing, I was capable of being able to say these things and yet not make a person feel as though they're being preached at.

The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it.

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.