Quotes About Dialogue

In the district I represent, I have to talk to everybody.

Representative government demands an ongoing conversation between legislators and constituents.

The more we remove the need for individual members of Congress to raise private election funds, the more our representatives can focus on the things they were elected to do, and the more time they will have to cross party lines and erase the divisions that pollute our national dialogue.

The harshness and choice of words can cut deeply. Republicans need to show compassion and to be reasonable when talking to any ethnic group.

People are clamoring to hear good ideas as opposed to the lesser of two evils... Either the Democrats are going to win or the Republicans are going to win, but the losers are all of us out here as citizens that really do want meaningful change, and none of it's happening. There's no dialogue regarding meaningful change.

I don't have the luxury of just hanging out in my primary and, once I win the primary, I'm fine. I have to talk to Democrats and Republicans.

I think it hurts blogs when they have to turn off their comments.

One movie I come back to time and again is 'The Hustler.' I don't think there's better dialogue in any film.

Exchange ideas frequently.

I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

We did not seek ideological confrontation.

Wisdom comes out of dialogue so you have to develop the capacity to expose your own ignorance in order that they may discover their own wisdom.

Talk to your enemies; sometimes ignorance comes from a lack of understanding.

So I think it's better to say something than not to say anything at all, even to an ignorant person.

I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it's about interpreting things - a dialogue.

In dialogue scenes, my favorite moments are when people aren't talking because you can cut to the heart of the matter much more quickly, often with a look. People hide things in words. When you don't have words to hide things in, it becomes much more direct and much more immediate of a connection.

Dialogue is one of the easiest ways to get character conflict across immediately in comics.

We have farmers in southwestern Yuma, so immigration - they wanted to talk to us about it.

When you do not have the dialogue to explain things, you will use everything to show and to tell the story. I think that this is what makes you believe that it is impeccable.

In my little imperfect way, what I'm trying to do is understand the world. As a filmmaker, you realize as you get older that each film is part of a dialogue you're having with yourself. That started when I was working in documentaries. And in a way, I've never deviated from it.

It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.

For me dialogue is as essential in football as in life. I like to talk to my players and I never impose anything, I always give them the chance to make their own choices.

I can try to convince somebody else of my beliefs, but I should not be imposing.

The point is that filmmaking is a collaborative effort; it isn't about imposing your vision on other people. It's about the talking, you know?