Quotes About Dialogue

If you try to make a silent movie with a normal script and you just pull out the dialogue, you will have big problems with the actors because you will ask them to tell a story that you don't know.

Actually, I met a lot of directors and most of them have that fantasy to make a silent movie because for directors it's the purest way to tell a story. It's about creating images that tell a story and you don't need dialogue for that.

People like light and silly, and they like stuff that's really energetic, and you get a character in a film bouncing around and screaming, people laugh. That's all it takes. I don't find that funny. To me, what's funny is dialogue and nuance of character and performance.

If comedy can be both - silly and fun but also say something and start a dialogue - that's the most you can ever ask for.

One of my messages to Republicans is very simple: One-third of your schedule should be listening to people in minority communities.

To help them recognize their Demon Dialogue, I suggest that they: • Stay in the present and focus on what is happening between them right now. • Look at the circle of criticism that spins both of them around. There is no true "start" to a circle. • Consider the circle, the dance, as their enemy and the consequences of not breaking the circle.

We will teach you about our God and you will teach us about yours, and together we'll find the God that exists behind them.

All right, all right. There's a copy of Plato's Symposium there. In it he wrote that his old mentor Socrates was taught philosophy by a woman. Her name was Diotima.

I realized that the heart of religion was setting up an honest dialogue with the uniqueness of one's soul and finding a deeply personal relationship with God, the inner Voice, the inner Music that plays in you as it does in no one else.

We will teach you about our God and you will teach us about yours, and together we'll find the God that exists behind them

We will teach you about our God and you will teach us about yours, and together we'll find the God that exist behind them.

The need to share what we experience, to be listened to, to have what is going on inside us matter to the person we are married to, to engage in a two-way dialogue, is the cry of one soul yearning to meet another."5

one HOW TO CONDUCT THE FIRST INTERVIEW WITH AN ADULT

Yup--nothing like asking about bull sperm to shut down a conversational exchange.

Talking isn't hard," she whispered to herself. "You've been doing it since you were two. You know how to do this.

We resent being talked to. We'd rather be talked with.

Our work, our relationships, and our lives succeed or fail one conversation at a time.

We resent being talked to. We'd rather be talked with. So will all of the experts and the terminally self-absorbed please leave the room and close the door behind you? Thanks.

Unreal conversations are expensive, for the individual and the organization.

The point is—if you want something from me, tell me! If you're upset with me, tell me! If there's something you want me to do or stop doing, tell me! If I said something that didn't go down well with you, stop the conversation right then and there and tell me! And if you're happy with me, tell me!

I talk about the purposes of fierce conversations. Interrogate reality. Provoke learning. Tackle tough challenges. Enrich relationships.

What's it going to take to shut you up? she asked. He spread his arms, palms out, and surrendered. Give me something else to do with my mouth.

Instead of this dumb rain check idea, I'll write a song about a guy who likes a girl who works in a bookstore but he won't tell her. And the clichés keep coming, he grumbled. Quit being one, then, she said.

He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands. In the fairy's song the earth recognized the names by which it called itself.