Quotes About Dialogue

You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.

If you publish something in traditional media, it's one-way. With social media, we get all this info coming back from those who read our posts.

If we are to learn anything from the tragic death of Michael Brown, we must first acknowledge that we have a race issue we are not addressing.

We meet before the movie and she gives you charts with sounds on them and makes a tape of examples. While they are setting up the scene, I go with her to the trailer and we go through the scene and correct the speech.

My feminist training was that this was your goal, to be a self-sufficient woman, but that is a miscalculation. It's just not the way we work. We work in dialogue with the community.

Having a human conversation is not something I've had any training in either as a comedian or as, you know, a human being.

The journalism, I was a financial journalist - it's very good training as a writer. You have to write for deadlines; you have a certain economy of phrasing. As a training ground as a writer, it's fantastic. I also think it teaches you to be observant, to listen to people, and gives you an ear of dialogue from doing interviews.

Movies have these transcendent moments where everything is just right, from the dialogue to the music to the lighting to the narrative context; everything is just perfect, and something magical happens - the film breaks through the screen and does something to you.

A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly transforming in the process of the dialogue.

Animated films are so precisely engineered - right down to forming lines of dialogue with words pulled from several different takes - how do you translate that spontaneity from the live-action to the digital realm?

And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.

The only problem was that I couldn't communicate with Dario. He speaks Italian and I don't. We had a translator the whole time. I just felt that something was lost with the go between. He was a delightful man, but I wish we could have spoken the same language.

A basic tenet of a healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency.

It's really great when you can admonish a lawmaker, but at the same time, get them to talk about the process of making government more transparent, then that's great.

Teaching, I soon learned, was a deliberate dance, a constant running conversation, a pleasure.

Man's greatest privilege is the discussion of virtue" Socrates in The Apology.

My method is to call in support of my statements the evidence of a single witness, the man I am arguing with, and to take his vote alone; the rest of the world are nothing to me; I am not talking to them.

The secret of creating conflict in scenes you write is to give your characters different scripts.

Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of exchanges that build in tempo or content toward climaxes.

Dialogue is a lean language in which every word counts.

I've had no practice at talking to famous detectives in my own kitchen.

God, this is why I can never live with women. They go off into corners and think, maybe it's this, maybe it's that. Ask, woman. Ask.

Ma mère avait demandé la permission, mais mon père ne lui avait rien répondu.

How do you expect to communicate with the ocean, when you can't even understand one another?