Quotes About Dialogue

If you're going to make a film, and you're going to have dialogue, and you want to take the characters seriously, let's understand what they're saying. If there is going to be technical dialogue, let's render it in a way that the audience can understand it and expect that it's not going to be so far over their heads.

Every writer has compressed time and procedure, and used clarifying dialogue. That's not a scandal: it's a legitimate dramatic technique.

President Obama is the best-known politician to be exploring the possibilities of new technologies to converse with the people. Others must follow his lead and innovate. It is inevitable.

I feel like great TED Talks are ones that are a little bit subject to interpretation, that do provoke further conversation - and potentially controversy.

I like the idea that I can talk to any teenage girls. You know, in a language that makes sense to them.

I remember being a teenager and feeling like I could talk to anyone anywhere about anything.

I do everything in my power to promote positivity however and whenever I can; and, constructively and softly, try to encourage tweens and teens that if they want to be part of a dialogue on my social platforms, there is an expectation that they do so with poise and respect.

It's finding those nonsensical pieces of conversation that we all do all the time. We do all the time. When we're talking on the telephone, there are arguments with people who agree when they both think that they disagree.

It's dangerous when you start telling people they can't have an opinion on something. And, you know, you don't cancel someone, you engage with someone.

It really just gives you a sense of when you need to have dialogue and when you don't, and if your pictures are telling the story, you don't need to have all this talking.

I don't like to just talk about nothing, or less than nothing. If it's something interesting, I'm fine with it, but, 'Hey, Zack, how is your day?' People ask that, and somebody actually tells them what happened in their day? I don't have any real interest in that.

The best thing I could say is you do have to be a really good listener. If I go to a family reunion, and there's 400 people there, everybody comes up and tells me their stories, right? And I think that when you're a good listener, and you can imagine how someone's talking, dialogue is your key friend, is it not?

The free market is at its best when everybody works in a fishbowl and tells you their point of view.

I can understand Tamil and Telugu when a conversation is aimed at me, but I cannot hold a conversation.

I am attempting to understand Telugu and then give my dialogues. But language is not a barrier for me.

Artists working for other artists is all about knowing, learning, unlearning, initiating long-term artistic dialogues, making connections, creating covens, and getting temporary shelter from the storm.

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No behaviour on our part is more self-centered than the demand to speak and the refusal to listen.

In this model, the change agent attempts to bring to light all values, working through conflicts embedded in the larger collective. The emphasis is on communication and cooperation with the change target. The technique is to involve the change target in an honest dialogue, while mutually learning the way to win-win solutions.

Parky, isn't it?" Strike said to the frowning constable and her companion as he and Robin walked back past them.

she's happy to have a chat, but we haven't fixed up a time yet. And I called Janice," said Strike, "mainly because

Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view.

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.