Quotes About Dialogue

That's why people read books. You get to have the real conversation, as opposed to the pseudo-conversations we have in everyday life.

For 'City of Ghosts,' I really didn't speak any Arabic. It obviously made it more difficult, but I also found it to be an advantage while shooting. It allowed me to focus on the emotion of the scene as opposed to just chasing dialogue.

Despite the occasional high decibel level, 'The Group' is not a shout fest. I don't simply want panelists with opposing opinions trying to out-shout one another.

Whenever people speak, you give the opposition the opportunity to use those words as they see fit.

Rewriting isn't just about dialogue; it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene.

I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.

Stand-up is more of an organic process. An imagined dialogue with the audience.

Like many older D.C. organizations, Common Cause has had to come a long way both in its use of the Internet and its understanding of the great value of engaging people in a broader online dialogue.

I think I've always had that orientation to try to understand the humanity behind people with whom I disagree.

All of my films have been very dialogue-heavy, and that's great. It always makes it more of a challenge to market in other countries.

Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others.

Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.

I thought our community should have a deep dialogue to make black America better. I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.

If somebody wants to book Alec Baldwin on one of our shows, and he wants to come on and talk to our people and say what he wants, I don't care. We would question him on his choice of words.

I think cross-cultural dialogue is something that has hugely impacted the richness of the culture of our world.

We in the so called 'Western civilisations' have so much to learn from other cultures, and they would stand to gain so much by learning from ours. We don't have all the answers - far from it... but nor do any other culture or religion.

I cannot stand not being able to have a conversation with someone and that's the case with a lot of these guys out here. They do not know how to hold a conversation. I'm not trying to waste my time.

Violence is never an acceptable outcome in the exercise of free speech.

We're very good at talking about the individual in American politics and excellent at talking about the government. But we have little ability to even acknowledge everything that exists in the middle, and given how influential politics is on every other part of our life, I think that failure of discourse is pretty corrosive to our overall culture.

The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how to overcome them.

Losing the ability to talk to each other doesn't just happen overnight. Things like that develop gradually.

8. Conditions of Dialogue The functional is what is practical. The only practical thing is the resolution of our fundamental problem: the realization of ourselves (our uncoupling from the system of isolation). This is useful and utilitarian. Nothing else. All the rest represents only trivial derivations of the practical, and its mystification.

Words, words. They're all we have to go on.

But Gabriel saw people talking to the sky, the sky replying. And he knew he had to learn this dance. Someday soon, he may need it.