Quotes About Dialogue

The way I write is really like putting one foot in front of the other. I really let the characters do most of the work, they start talking and they just lead the way.

To learn bad dialogue is so difficult and so boring, and to work with a stupid director who tells you to do the wrong thing, etcetera, it's just unbearable.

The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.

Mexico is a country we Americans should be cultivating a positive dialogue about how we work together to make ourselves more secure and more competitive vis-a-vis the rest of the world.

To fully communicate with people, you need to find tactics that would interest them

But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script.

I hate it when I'm reading a comic, and the dialogue looks like stickers stuck on top to explain what's going on. For me the best is when your eye goes in a certain point and moves through the composition and then springs out on the dialogue, or gets confused in the image and then goes to the dialogue for an explanation.

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.

I like dialogue in novels. I wanted to avoid laying history on with a trowel - appearing to be lecturing, as opposed to the characters lecturing their children or students. Dialogue can humanise the story and make it go down somewhat more smoothly.

To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be, a composer. Acting got me sidetracked.

Once we get them in the studio, you interview a person the same way you would interview another. You ask them a question. You let them answer. You try to listen closely and then ask a follow-up.

Talk politics, talk about study and talk positively.

When I was studying in JNU, I realised how students and professors address each other as comrades.

When I play characters, I like playing people who just comment on stuff, stand around and talk.

If someone asks a stupid question, you can only give a stupid answer or appear arrogant.

I have a hard time arguing with stupid people.

I believe that Attorney Fortuno has some styles that it seems to me are going to foster dialogue and good communication, and I hope I am not mistaken.

Whomever you're going to interview, you have to be interested in what it is you want to know from them. You have to be interested in the subject.

The subject matter of the show, 'Cabaret,' was more than risky. And the emcee I would be playing didn't have a single line of dialogue. Still, it was full of possibilities, and it was mine.

The purpose of language is to communicate. That's the most basic definition of language. I have my own subjective experience going on in my head, and you have your own subjective experience going on in your head. The only way we can bridge that unbridgeable gap is through language.

But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.

A lot of people talk, but they don't say anything. And people listen, and they don't absorb anything of substance.

It's important, at least for me, that while we're entertaining, there's also something substantive to talk about.

I really enjoy hosting, not necessarily because it provides more airtime, but because it allows me to be a part of more substantive discussions.