Quotes About Dialogue

Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that.

Capping means to follow up with something good or better in a conversation.

I don't know, Apollo," Hera said, shaking her head. "That was a little . . . repetitive.

I love you." "I know," she replied, using her best Han Solo voice.

The way you ask a question chooses its answer.

Destiny is not only a dramatist, it is also its own stage manager. That is, it sets the entrances of the characters on scene, gives them letters and other objects, and produces the off-stage noises to go with the dialogue: thunder, a carriage, a shot.

Fight your battles with words, not fists

Still,' he said. 'Ach,' I said. 'Ach nothing,' he said. 'Ach sure,' I said. 'Ach sure what?' he said. 'Ach sure, if that's how you feel.' 'Ach sure, of course that's how I feel.' 'Ach all right then.' 'Ach,' he said. 'Ach,' I said. 'Ach,' he said. 'Ach,' I said. 'Ach.' So that was settled.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

Is your name really Romeo?" "No." "Oh." "It's Jean-Baptiste." "Oh." "Are you disappointed?" "No." Talk about snappy dialogue.

First of all, keep in mind that thinking about what you're going to do is a way of stalling. If you really could imagine what would happen when you made an image, there would be no need to do it. Even trying to imagine what a finished work of art will look like will probably lead to expectations that will be let down by the real experience. Making art is not solely an act of will. Rather it's the outcome of a dialogue between artists and their art.

Vlad said, sounding regretful. Simon replied.

A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well, is the chief instrument of cultural change. (Richard Rorty, philosopher)

But was talking aloud allowed?

Dubliners talk to each other very easily. We talk as though getting back to it, after some interruption.

Talk is essential, talk stimulates, arguments clarify, speculations which are thrown out to the winds may fall like seed to spring up with a crop of perceptions.

The first step toward persuading others is an evident and sincere willingness to be persuaded yourself.

Think of the task not in linear terms—tracing a direct line from point A to point B—but rather as a cycle: think, draw, look, rethink, redraw. Likewise, don't envision the mind telling the pencil what to do; instead, allow a conversation to develop between eye and hand,

For the professional writer, stories must be presented as a series of individual scenes, each one dramatized with dialogue and telling descriptions of who is present and what they're all doing.

Learning how to be persuasive has been really crucial to my life both professionally and personally.

In the barbershop, there's democracy. You're a professor; you're an engineer; you're a garbage man, have at it. You got something to say, get down with it.

It is harder to lie in an interview. A good interview - and it can be polite - is not a one way street like a candidate controlled ad. An interview is not programmed by the candidate and so the candidate can't be exactly sure what will be asked.

Genuine dialogue, not rhetorical bomb-throwing, leads to progress.

Every time I go to these racial forums, it is people who are alike, or it is progressives and liberals. So I said, 'At some point, we've got to bring the progressives and the liberals and the conservatives together.'