Quotes About Dialogue

You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script.

I'm good with a script.

If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.

With all my films, the pace is not very fast, and so people get bored with them and comment that they're just people talking in rooms and all that.

I don't write shows with dialogue where actors have to memorize dialogue. I write the scenes where we know everything that's going to happen. There's an outline of about seven or eight pages, and then we improvise it.

On my last two days of 'Young and the Restless,' I had 120-something pages of dialogue. My last two days.

Movies would be like a broad painted canvas... or a mystical process which cannot really be explained, like, 'What is electricity?' Along with the images that go on the screen, there's a corridor of dialogue that can happen through motion pictures, whether you're aware of it or not.

We have been the one who all along have been saying that a dialogue must be initiated with Pakistan.

It's not for the president to determine the arrangements between Israel and the Palestinians, and the Arab world, but to be the bridge between opinions and to facilitate dialogue and understanding.

The relationship between the Jews and Arabs is necessary to help build a bridge between Israelis and Palestinians.

I was on a panel with Marshall McLuhan in Canada. Someone says, 'Mr. McLuhan, I read your book, and I disagree with you.' And he says, 'Oh, you read my book? Then you only know half the story.'

Before I ever put anything on paper, Jerry and I would talk back and forth.

I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication.

If a parent wants to talk about slavery or wants to talk about countries where bombs go off, they need to have a way - a setting - to have that conversation. And there are wonderful books out there for those kinds of conversations.

Without dialogue, you cannot run parliament. You have to interact.

My use of language is part and parcel of my message.

I have been in dialogue with my family about what can actually be done. We've come up with this philosophy that in a truly multicultural society, the only way to have liberty and justice for everybody is to have multiple parties. And by multiple parties, I mean 50 parties, not one or two.

I like parties. I like talking and conversations.

I believe any time that both parties are talking, it's a good thing.

We need to get away from labels. That's the way people talk in Washington, D.C. - through labels, through ideological frames, through partisan frames.

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

The aspect of congresses and such meetings generally to which I attach the greatest importance is the discussion. That is why people assemble: to hear different opinions, rather than to pass resolutions.

Ethnographers adopt a particular stance toward people with whom they work. By word and action, in subtle ways and direct statements, they say, "I want to understand the world from your point of view. I want to know what you know in the way you know it. I want to understand the meaning of your experience, to walk in your shoes, to feel things as you feel them, to explain things as you explain them. Will you become my teacher and help me understand?"[102]

You have your words, and I have mine.