People like light and silly, and they like stuff that’s really energetic, and you get a character in a film bouncing around and screaming, people laugh. That’s all it takes. I don’t find that funny. To me, what’s funny is dialogue and nuance of character and performance.
We want the people, in their private lives, to be completely free, and in today’s world, having access to information and the right of free dialogue and the right to think freely is the right of all peoples, including the people of Iran.
I’ve never made a film using dialogue or speech.
You gotta trust your artist. I love writing pages without dialogue, which seems weird, I guess. But few things are as powerful in comics as a really strong silent page.
A lot of people are quite discouraged by the process of getting healthy because, one, they think they can’t afford it, and two, it’s daunting. I wanted to start a dialogue. Because you won’t be able to even get there until you actually accept yourself and start connecting with yourself.
My hope is that we would begin to have a dialogue in this country about the importance of civility. We can have strong differences, but it does seem to me that most of the country believes it’s gone to critical mass in what I would call the professional class across the political spectrum – left and right.
Broadway musicals, where you sing the whole time, I really don’t like; I like alternating dialogue and music.
China pays a great deal of attention to the Korean nuclear issue. We stand for achieving denuclearization of the peninsula in a peaceful way through dialogue and consultation to maintain peace and stability of the peninsula and Northeast Asia.
In books, you can just wallow in dialogue, and you can just wallow in written words. In screenplays, every line has to serve the purpose of the line that’s implied before it and the line that’s implied after it. Maybe five lines have to do the work of fifty lines.
I think America is going to have to think through whether it wants to uplift the political dialogue or advance an approach that divides and, frankly, can lead to violence.
And therefore we must seek dialogue in this networked world. We must ask which voice was actually attempting to make itself heard and saw no other possibility of gaining a hearing. To that extent, for a while this also represented a forced opening of a cosmopolitan view.
When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did.
When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility so that there is a dialogue with the creative side.
Buddhada was a man of few words. You can see the importance of silence in his cinema. There are long stretches of no dialogue in his films.
Frankly, as much as I love to improvise, it hasn’t been difficult to stick to the script on ‘Mad Men.’ The writing is so precise, and the story so carefully crafted, that I don’t think there’s room – or need – for ad libbing. I could never come up with dialogue as lovely as these writers do, anyway.
Movies have these transcendent moments where everything is just right, from the dialogue to the music to the lighting to the narrative context; everything is just perfect, and something magical happens – the film breaks through the screen and does something to you.
I think film writing, you’re thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you’re thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it’s also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.
On my last two days of ‘Young and the Restless,’ I had 120-something pages of dialogue. My last two days.
I think the ‘Predator’ franchise has been great on a number of levels. When it comes to online safety for kids, and adults, I think we’ve raised awareness and created a dialogue that didn’t exist three-and-a-half years ago. Clearly, it has resonated with viewers for a variety of reasons, and I’m attached to it.
I only knew one thing about policemen: they were inhuman beasts. The problem was how to turn them into likable, sympathetic human beings. The answer was simple. Give them head colds. And first names. And keep their dialogue homey and conversational.
With any mannerisms or dialogue, you have to be careful you’re not just serving yourself. What happens with improving is a lot of times, if you’re not in the framework of the script, you’re just making everything easier so it fits you.
I think cross-cultural dialogue is something that has hugely impacted the richness of the culture of our world.
I use voiceover just like I use dialogue. There’s a way to give out information or give out insight to the character or give out their worldview, and maybe you have to slip in exposition, but it’s all about how you write it.
Institutions are better served by going direct to end users, establishing a channel for direct dialogue and feedback. It is a world of many to one, not one to many.
I’m totally an anxious mess all the time. There’s a constant dialogue going on in my brain, and it’s just reminding me of all the failures that I have had, and all of the things I need to do, and all of the things I’m not doing good enough.
In business, there’s a constant focus on developing strategies, reviewing executive performance against those strategies each year, engaging with opposing or different points of view, and having intellectual dialogue.
I think people remember pictures not dialogue. That’s why I like pictures.
I think that because television is shot on a really fast schedule, and it gets piped into your home on a smaller screen, it’s much more about character and dialogue in a lot of cases than the movies are.
Honestly, dialogue is a weird area for me. It just comes naturally; I know I’m quite good at it, but I can’t actually tell you why or how in any detail.
If you have a good ear for dialogue, you just can’t help thinking about the way people talk. You’re drawn to it. And the obsessive interest in it forces you to develop it. You almost can’t help yourself.
The purpose of the capital formation presentations and roundtable discussions is to create a dialogue with business leaders, economic development organizations, business incubators, and community leaders to promote investment in Montana and support businesses as they start up and/or grow their existing operations.
I’m self-entertaining. My dialogue is with myself.
It bloody annoys me when people forget that we’re actors. Just because we tend to appear in things with our own accents, saying dialogue that comes naturally to us, people think we’re just being ourselves.
I went right from wunderkind to washed up. Old. Been around too long. That’s just the way I feel. That’s my internal dialogue.
It is our belief that nations should embrace dialogue and peaceful settlement of disputes instead of rushing to arms, for suffering and bloodshed will ensue.
I can work a lot faster when I’m writing a screenplay than when I’m writing a play because, if I’m having a problem with a scene or something, I can just be writing it in a way where there’s no dialogue, or find a way to make sound do the work that I want to do or a close-up do the work that I need to do.
I’m good at coming up with wacky characters and funny dialogue.
We Liberal Democrats believe in dialogue. We believe in cooperation with both sides of industry and between both sides of industry. And we believe in the language of cooperation. We reject the language of confrontation.
I hope to use dialogue and culture as a means of bringing people of various cultures together, and using that as a way to resolve conflict.
Legal dialogue is awesome, but you can’t ad lib. It’s much more fun to be looser and say things like, ‘Can I work in a Han Solo reference?’ I’m a ‘Star Wars’ freak.
One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.
As a director, the biggest job is to discern the imperfections in emotional tone and then view it in the global picture of what you’re trying to do, if that makes sense. It’s a rhythm, like music is a rhythm or composition and art is a rhythm. Dialogue is a rhythm as well.
My feminist training was that this was your goal, to be a self-sufficient woman, but that is a miscalculation. It’s just not the way we work. We work in dialogue with the community.
Because I would be around so many people in the fashion industry, there’s this kind of dialogue. People would always say, ‘Oh your daughter is so beautiful. Is she a model?’ And it was so strange for me to hear because I felt so not beautiful inside.
I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and when Oliver plays with other sax players, it’s like a dialogue.
There’s nothing wrong with anybody from any other country having a perspective on the British royal family. It would be interesting. But I just doubt that they would get the dialogue right.
I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue.
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.
