Making comic adaptations means making a lot of choices – you need to adjust the pacing, the dialogue, and in this case, a lot of the cultural references.
For me, the dialogue is the easiest part of writing. It just always seems so obvious what a character will say. Maybe it’s because I talk too much!
Most of music videos were short films – they had dialogue, action sequences. I shot with cranes and helicopters. I wanted to created cinema-like moments.
Appointments’ is largely just derived from pieces of dialogue with another person, and then also what’s going on inside of my own mind, or a person’s own mind. They’re intended to be a little bit exaggerated and a satire of things that we’re not sure are entirely true, or maybe biased.
I’ve always had it inside – this ability to read people, how to get into someone else’s head and help them with their problems. And I love when people trust me with their feelings and I can get into any kind of dialogue with them about their inner stuff. I think it’s the thing I enjoy most besides modeling.
To those who wish to shape the nation’s political dialogue, social media is dangerous.
Oh, ‘Sports Night’ was tough because ‘Sports Night’ was… Well, you know, it’s like Mamet. It’s Sorkin. And I didn’t realize that you had to immediately be off of the other actors’ last line in their dialogue.
It is just not enough to strengthen the secret services for the fight against terrorism but it’s also necessary to advance dialogue between cultures.
The subject matter of the show, ‘Cabaret,’ was more than risky. And the emcee I would be playing didn’t have a single line of dialogue. Still, it was full of possibilities, and it was mine.
I love the movie ‘Taken,’ but the dialogue in the beginning of that movie is hilarious. They’re talking, these commando types, and there’s dialogue like, ‘Hopefully your daughter appreciates what you’re doing for her. Does she know that you’re doing it?’ What guys talk like this?
That part, that internal dialogue that has a lot of ups and downs and darks and lights and stuff – that, I think, is where music comes from. I think the face that you put on when you’re talking to people and making small talk, I don’t think that’s where music comes from.
American colleges are now increasingly reflexive in maintaining politically correct dialogue over controversy, and some say universities have lost sight of education’s ultimate purpose.
‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ – I’d watched and hated it seven times before it provided the first ‘religious experience’ I’d ever had watching a film. Finally, I was able to pick up on what the film was transmitting almost entirely through dialogue.
Regarding Syria, we already call for dialogue between Syria and all parties concerned, in order to avoid any kind of escalation in the region which may expose the whole area to chaos.
We call upon all warring parties in the world to lay down their arms and pursue the path of peace, dialogue, and inclusive resolution of disputes.
People who listen to NPR are forever thanking the hosts for ‘sharing,’ or ‘initiating a dialogue,’ or ‘taking the time to explain this very important issue.’
If you put yourself in a place where you’re having to work at understanding something, then you keep yourself awake to all possible choices. How the body will look like in the future, the ethics of the body: those are questions that really fascinate me. Let’s get the dialogue going.
I come from a tradition where the writer writes a play for the actors, rather than for himself, and the dialogue is made to work onstage, so it needs actors to help shape it. So you never get a play right straightaway.
I come from a TV background, so for me this more like doing a freeing theatre piece because we’d go into a room and do the scene, instead of doing it as a wide shot, medium shot, and close up with only the odd line of dialogue.
I immediately was captured by ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist.’ It gave me a springboard into contemporary Pakistan and a dialogue between Pakistan and the rest of the world.
Every time I think about writing, comedy doesn’t interest me in the slightest. I can play comedy, but I don’t think in terms of comic dialogue.
Dialogue is like jazz. Dialogue is creative.
I like dialogue that is slightly more brittle than life. I have always admired and wished to write one of those 1940s film scripts where every line is written with a sharpness and economy that is frankly artificial.
I feel the feminist movement has excluded black women. You cannot talk about being black and a woman within traditional feminist dialogue.
I realised how important it is to have your body movement, your diction, tonality, dialogue delivery and to be in rhythm because everything is musical.
The best sounds a kid will get is in a movie theater, with huge speakers, turned up loud. I always mix my music really loud. I don’t care if you don’t hear all the dialogue. The audience are not idiots.
What is missing from today’s dialogue is the effect autism is having on families, our society and what the unknown factors are. The 300lb. gorilla in the room is that our children with autism today will soon become adults with autism.
I’m from New Orleans, and I know that people do like to sit and talk and drink and, you know, have conversation; you have dialogue.
What’s great about theater and drama is it thrives on dialogue, and dialogue thrives on people with different points of view fighting for what they want.
We just did what we’d done when we were an act in the ’60s. But I found it impossible to hold a dialogue with 500,000 people. In a certain sense, it was numbing.
Silent films were, I think, more different than we know to sound films. We think of it as simply that we added dialogue and in actual fact I think it was an entirely different art form.
For me, I’m not a great wordsmith, and so maybe from lack of great dialogue writing, I thought it’s easier and better to express a story through visuals.
Dialogue between people of differing views is critical for fostering understanding in a democracy.
You can make bad writing ‘OK,’ but… you really need to start with a good script and with characters that are three-dimensional and with great dialogue. It’s a difficult lesson to learn because good writing is hard to come by, but it’s definitely worth chasing.
I supply a presence. There are never any long dialogue scenes to establish a character.
I was Paul Schrader’s assistant for six months before I went to film school, and he’s very much about knowing what’s going to happen on every page before you even start writing dialogue – the entire plot and character arcs are mapped out.
One of the reasons you take a role is because it’s something you always wanted to do, from going to the movies as a kid. I always wanted to do a 1950s movie, for example. And I got a chance to be in ‘Peggy Sue Got Married.’ I would have taken only one line of dialogue to be in that.
When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it’s an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.
Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that’s my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there’s a piece of dialogue that’s just outstanding, or a description, then I’ll flip back to the first page and start it.
I have notebooks and sketchbooks for ideas. I also have drawers full of envelopes covered in quick outlines, scenes or scraps of dialogue that I don’t want to forget. I tend to grab whatever’s to hand and just get the thing down before it’s lost. It’s not what you would call a streamlined system.
If someone’s personality is ‘punch an Asian grandma,’ it’s not a dialogue. I have an Asian grandma. You want to punch her? There ain’t no common ground, mama.
I think actors always find the dialogue doesn’t quite fit, so you always have to play with it.
I’m interested in the opportunity that people can self-create using social media and the online dialogue. Before social media, you needed to have a lot of personal funds to break through to hire the right people and build a presence to start a line. It gives the opportunity and platform for people to be discovered.
A multicultural society does not reject the culture of the other but is prepared to listen, to see, to dialogue and, in the final analysis, to possibly accept the other’s culture without compromising its own.
What I have seen in my travels across this country is the dedication, the commitment, and the resolve of our brave men and women in law enforcement to improving policing, to embracing the 21st Century Task Force recommendations, and to continuing to have a dialogue that makes our country safer for all.
With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.
For myself, the only way I know how to make a book is to construct it like a collage: a bit of dialogue here, a scrap of narrative, an isolated description of a common object, an elaborate running metaphor which threads between the sequences and holds different narrative lines together.
