Quotes About Dialogue

When we worked on 'Girls,' we've had some really meaningful dialogue with our fans and with critics and really learned a lot of things. Like, on the question of diversity, we heard people, and we responded, which is very different from, like, 'Hey fatty, what are you doing on TV?' And that's what we're trying to avoid.

Meeting at our fault lines is much more interesting to me than meeting at shared values. I'm not trying to sell you something. If anything, I'm trying to show you where we are. There is nothing to hide.

It is very important to me to communicate with the fans and not hide what's going on behind the scenes.

Sometimes hiding behind masculinity with your homies can get in the way of having a real dialogue.

Men do tend to talk about things on a much higher level.

I love film and have taken a stab at a screenplay. I love writing dialogue and found it highly enjoyable.

In 'Godha,' I was a Punjabi girl and had Hindi, English and Punjabi dialogues.

To hear one talk is better than to see one.

At times, they're so Right and I'm so Left, we agree.

What America is, to me, is a guy doesn't want to buy, you let him not buy, you respect his not buying. A guy has a crazy notion different from your crazy notion, you pat him on the back and say, Hey pal, nice crazy notion, let's go have a beer. America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please, not just one droning glamorous reasonable voice.

Turn that Megaphone down, and insist that what's said through it be as precise, intelligent, and humane as possible.

Too often, to speak is to "get it wrong.

Amigo! Amigo! (Calling out to the ITALLIAN Prime minister....)

And I should like to know why you talked of us to Mrs Scaling as though you had been our grandfather!' 'I feel like your grandfather,' he replied.

English?' I asked.

I'm all in favour of talking to other parties, always have been, always will be. I'm a pluralist, talk to them, see what we've got in common, work together, fine.

The only thing that will keep an abortion worker in the industry longer is a pro-lifer who condemns them.

If we want to have good workers and good citizens, we need to create common spaces in which individuals can talk about the moral and ethical dilemmas that they have faced and how they resolve them.

One of the dangers of science fiction, particularly bad science fiction, is that you have these scenes where the characters turn to a blackboard and start explaining how this faster-than-light drive works, or something like that. We never really have those conversations in real life. That's not part of the way we interact as human beings.

I believe that sitting in a street and hearing the people talk, argue, console each other is one workshop every actor must attend on a regular basis.

The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral.

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

As an actor, you tend to just look at the script till you get to your stuff.