Quotes About Dialogue

I wanted when we began this to have a conversation, the kind that you're able to have, and the only way I knew how to do it was not to have a pre-interview.

I love somebody that can hold a great conversation.

When I was 17, I met many artists, and it started to become this conversation with artists out of which all of my exhibitions grew.

The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.

I think of my own work as part of a decades-long conversation about books and reading with people I will mainly never meet.

I flirted with Rihanna once. It didn't work - but it didn't not work. It didn't go anywhere, but it was a great conversation.

Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.

Conversations create change. It's easy to call someone 'enemy,' but there's more to it, right?

I love conversations, about anything.

We are shaped by our conversations.

I speak to my players when I deem it necessary, but they are private conversations.

I never set out to convert anyone in the Klan. I just set out to get an answer to my question: 'How can you hate me when you don't even know me.'

The beginning to correcting all of our mistakes is communication.

Personally, I hope that we British continue to criticise America - just as I hope Americans will criticise us. That is what friends do.

I'm an artist, and I like art that gets people talking, good or bad. Criticism is good, too.

The thing about '48 Hrs.' that really isn't thought about much is that's the first film where the black and the white criticize each other.

Our response has been, 'Well, let's then make an effort to get the Israelis and the Palestinians to sit around the table.' That hasn't happened. So we only have ourselves to blame for this crisis.

I'll tell you one thing... no doubt about it, my favorite kind of comedy is talking head comedy. I mean, if it were up to me, I'd do a whole entire movie that was just around a dinner table.

I hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. I've always said this is the only way forward.

If a Jewish group sat down with a Christian conservative group, and there was a so-called Messianic Jew at the table, that would be the end of the meeting.

It's great to go to the cinema and have a conversation about something that is almost taboo.

I think, even though homophobia still exists, there is much more of a dialogue and a taboo around being homophobic.

When there's no push back against Islamophobic rhetoric, people see that as tacit endorsement of anti-Islamic rhetoric.

I'm there to tailor something very precisely and something very subtly to dialogue and the actor's energy. I'm there to bring out something that isn't spoken. 'King's Speech' is the perfect film to do it.