Quotes About Interaction

A lot of times, directors don't know how to speak to actors, or writers don't know how to communicate.

There are directors you never, ever want to get close to. Lubitsch was one. Outside of the work, I don't think I ever said five words to him. Mamet was pretty much the same thing. His mind is working all the time.

I get along very well with people - that's both an advantage and a disadvantage.

It's much more fun to talk to an audience that includes a lot of people who disagree with me.

Some people you work on a film with, and then they disappear.

Somehow after a few vodkas, the language barrier always seems to disappear.

I'm a bit disappointed British Bobsleigh haven't yet been in touch.

I think most of the times there is a disconnect between audience and filmmakers.

Compared with games, reality is disconnected.

The biggest part of Loopt is about discovering the world around you, never replacing a social experience - only adding to it.

It's important to contribute to group discussions, but if all you're thinking about is when you'll get the opportunity to speak - and stressing about whether you'll sound smart - you won't be fully engaged in the conversation.

Engagement is always better then disengagement. If we don't talk, somebody else will.

To write a story about New York that only deals with people in your age and socioeconomic bracket, that feels dishonest to me. So much of New York comes from everyone bumping into each other.

It's not that I dislike many people. It's just that I don't like many people.

Ever since I was little, I've shied away from romance. It's not that I dislike women, but I'm not good with them.

Some people say the network is the computer. We believe the display is the computer. Anywhere there's a pixel, that's where we want to be.

I would never disrespect anybody who phoned me up or got in contact. I don't work like that.

I like to get within handshaking distance of the crowd. If it happens, they know it, we know it, and that's all we came here for.

I get a lot of kids distracted. Sometimes they got to go cover left field, but they're over here talking to me, getting an autograph.

I talk to bankers, distributors, marketing people. I used to sit at home in my tracksuit bottoms, and the real excitement of my day would be going out to get a copy of 'Private Eye' and a latte.

A film is between you and the audience. The distributors are the only people in between us. It is a straight equation.

I'd rather dig a ditch than go to a dinner party with people I don't know.

I've always liked that idea of a diverse group of audience members sitting together, rubbing up against each other and taking on the life of a culture that doesn't belong to either one of them.

You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.