Quotes About Dialogue

I don't believe that we should never not talk to people we don't agree with politically. If you can make that person laugh, it's the first step to getting him to listen to change their mind.

In order to practice dialogue, you need to be able to set aside your assumptions and try to listen more than you want to talk. It's not always politically correct to be able to do that, but it can give you a better sense of the reality.

The politically correct illiberal left far too often side with the extremists.

I tend to get comfortable with the dialogue and find out who the person is in the script and try to hit that. People are sort of independent of their occupations and their pastimes. You don't play a politician or a fireman or a cowboy - you just play a person.

As a politician, I engage with all kinds of opinions irrespective of whether they are in the media or not.

And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.

Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.

Politicians are trying to attract people to issues.

Dialogue is the essence of parliamentary politics.

You ask me a question. I have a blank mind. You ask me a question, and the question is informed, and you're interested, and now my mind starts popping. That's what conversation is. That's what communicating is.

Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a character or two, a few lines of dialogue, framing, pacing, payoff - but we certainly don't think of them adding up over time to some larger portrait of our times.

A playwright who limits himself - or is limited - to a handful of characters is forced to concentrate on the essentials of the situation that he has chosen to portray.

Real answers need to be found in dialogue and interaction and, yes, our shared human condition. This means being open to one another instead of simply fighting to maintain a prescribed position.

I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.

I have no illusions that my work can rouse the masses to create change, because literature simply doesn't have that power anymore in my country, if it does anywhere. But I do hope that it can be read by those who are in positions to create change, or that it can at least be part of that dialogue.

It is the single image, as used in a photograph or a painting - or the frame of a film - to which words have been added to enlarge the context. The method is not the same as that by which most paintings are named. It is closer in its performance to what dialogue does to a movie, to what the caption does to a good poster.

I think Socrates was fascinated by Alcibiades. It's almost the opposite of hypocrisy. I think it's like when you can see the potential in someone.

When people say, 'Well, I don't talk to my family because they're all conservatives,' or 'I don't talk to my family because they're racist,' I'm, like, 'No, no, no; that's exactly who you need to be talking to.'

I'm always for constructive conversation, meaningful conversation, not just words, but conversation.

If you listen, people will tell you exactly what they want - whether it's a business relationship or a consumer relationship.

Not everything is about causing controversy. That would be a very boring way to go.

What you want to do is make people talk, start a conversation.

Life is a conversation. Make it a good one.

I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.