Quotes About Interaction

A film is not something that can be made over the phone or Skype. Creative people meet, spend time together, and then come up with something.

If you work at a 10,000-person company, and you're using e-mail as the primary means of communication, then you probably have access to a couple hundredths of 1 percent of all the communications happening across the company. But if you use Slack, you might have access to 10 or 20 percent.

It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.

I like America anyway. In Japan we are much more formal. If two friends are separated for a long time and they meet they bow and bow and bow. They keep bowing without exchanging a word. Here they slap each other on the back and say: Hello, old man, how goes everything.

I have never slapped a boy in my life except for my brother.

Within half an hour of posting a piece on 'Slate,' I get a direct, often hostile and personal, response from readers.

I hate a sleepy, nonresponsive, and silent audience because it fails to excite me as a performer.

We went on stage with the Jefferson Airplane, Jim started singing with Grace Slick and hugging her. Then he danced off the stage, went back into the dressing room and passed out cold.

I think in general the Zoom interviews are harder because of the slight delay and then trying to jump in and ask questions can be more difficult.

There is something in the micro-gestures in Australia that I just understand. It's something I grew up with - how people interact, the slight differences in language and gestures, that I just understand and it puts me at ease.

I like to call everyone that I find slightly annoying a 'sociopath.'

I get slightly annoyed if I've got bushy eyebrows or I haven't got any make-up on, but apart from that I love chatting to new people.

Every actor demands different things. Every human being you come in contact with in your life, you have to deal with in slightly different ways.

I would never think of asking a girl out on the High Street or the disco or at school. But on the ski slope, I would chat to all the girls.

I'm not a big texter anyway. I'm really slow at it and so I try to avoid it to avoid embarrassment, you know what I mean?

I can be incredibly focused, and I can appear impatient. So I've learned to slow down, get to know people, and provide more context. There's nothing wrong with getting to the point pretty quickly, but it's also helpful to give people an opportunity to talk about their work.

If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.

You have to give the crowd energy to feed off of and they will give it back. If you go on stage acting sluggish and nonchalant, that's how the crowd will be. But if you let them know you appreciate them and do call and response, you'll get a good reception.

A high five is a very open kind of hand, but it can still smack you.

In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room.

I'm not great at small talk.

That's all small talk is - a quick way to connect on a human level - which is why it is by no means as irrelevant as the people who are bad at it insist. In short, it's worth making the effort.

I'm not an ace at small talk.

I'm not good at meeting people, and I'm not good at small talk.