Quotes About Dialogue

Coming up in the School of Aaron Sorkin Delivery of Fast-Paced Dialogue and Hyper-Articulateness prepared me well for Shondaland, where there are many of the same factors at play.

'My character wouldn't do that.' That was always my favorite thing people say: 'My character wouldn't do that.' I said, 'Well, it says right here in this script your character does that.'

One of my favorite things is to have a three-hour conversation over coffee with someone.

I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.

Decentralisation is controversial - but that's fine. We should be fearless about having a debate.

My favorite movie is 'The Women' from 1939. It's been my favorite movie since I was like 12 years old. I love the dialogue, really. It's just a lot of really strong female performances. Rosalind Russell kills it, you know.

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

My fights and arguments, even with God, went down on paper.

I'm afraid the Internet is filled with people using really very intemperate language.

I like a novel to have a certain amount of dead time and filler - unremarkable scenery, descriptions of getting from point A to point B, dialogue in which not much is said - in between the parts that are electric. With a long work that you don't read in one sitting, I think that makes for the best reading experience.

I just don't like filming scenes where it's like, that's not how people talk. People aren't saying a joke every five seconds.

Every filmmaker wants to get their audience talking.

In most of my encounters with Klan members, we would discuss reasons for why they were members in the first place.

If you want to be listened to, the first step is to listen well yourself.

Most of the time I approach a track as series of experiments: seeing what fits, and trying to manipulate sounds into each other so they have some kind of dialogue, and then start building a structure around it.

A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication.

Whites know never tell blacks what you really think and what you really feel because you risk being seen as a racist. And the result of that is that to a degree, we as blacks live in a bubble. Nobody tells us the truth. Nobody tells us what they would do if they were in our situation. Nobody really helps us.

After Civil Rights, it was very awkward for whites and blacks. We didn't know how to talk to each other.

Sadly, whites are rarely open to what black and brown folks have to say regarding their ongoing experiences with racist mistreatment. And we are especially reluctant to discuss what that mistreatment means for us as whites: namely that we end up with more and better opportunities as the flipside of discrimination.

There are a few blacks who have the courage to speak honestly about immorality within the black culture, and whites should work with them to help unite the races with truth.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.

I had to keep myself in check. Like, 'Whoa, whoa, whoa.' I'd never sat in a room, five feet away from a Klansman putting on his damn robe. That's what freaked me out a little bit. But I wanted to see a Klansman.

To exist in an echo chamber and only talk to people with whom we agree is fruitless.

I liked Kennedy. So far, he is the only American president who could talk with me and with whom I could talk. I know Johnson, but I have not yet a clear opinion of him.