Quotes About Dialogue

We are a divided nation in the worst sense of the word, and we don't hear the other side.

We're so divided as a world that we don't often have the opportunity to sit down and talk to people who are different to us. We're so ready to always be right that we sometimes forget it's OK to listen.

Speech, not violence, is how we will bridge the divides between us.

The fundamental thing for anybody, any relationship or any expedition or anything is communication.

There is nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitor.

I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation.

Because TV is mostly close up, it has to be fast. And because it has to be fast, you don't have time to explain completely, by a sequence shot, what's happening between people. So instead of experiencing what's happening, say, when a couple is dancing, dialogue is used to explain.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

A fight can express things people might not be able to say with words.

The greatest form of expression - or, at least, the most common that we have as human beings, what separates us from the animals - is speaking: the ability to communicate.

'Khamoshi' gave me the chance to prove that expressions can also say what dialogue could.

My own thinking is often clarified and extended by talking with students.

With comedic actors, you can write one joke or two jokes, sample dialogue, and they have the capacity to extrapolate.

Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.

If you're going to have an exchange of ideas, the only thing you can do is to meet people face-to-face in front of a crowd who may think differently than you do. I mean, that's what democracy is about, isn't it?

I just always believed that all comments are better face-to-face, whether they're derogatory or whether they're not.

If you want to hear the facts, you are going to have to let me speak.

My job is to analyze conversations and discover why communications fail.

I think where policy fails cinema can help to bring people together.

A full and fair discussion is essential to democracy.

The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again, when the actor interprets them.

When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.

If Catholics and Jews can today come together regularly for talks after so many tears and so much blood have been shed, than Jews and Arabs must be able to do the same.

You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technical resources, are in a dialogue with the things they are discovering every time, as if it was the first time.