I've never made a film using dialogue or speech.

In film, you're always using your tools, your body, your voice, your emotions, but onstage, you use them in a different way.

— Rodrigo Santoro

Describe character using dialogue. Describe character using what the characters see or do or think, but not what they had done or where they…

— Colm Toibin

Don't have conversations taking place in empty space. Weave in background details of where the action (dialogue is a form of "action") is taking…

— Lee Wyndham

Readers take in dialogue one thought at a time. A frequent mistake of beginners is to combine thoughts, which may be suitable for other…

— Sol Stein

I can hardly believe what these 12 caricatures [about Prophet Muhammad] have caused in the world. We Danes feel like we have been placed…

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

“[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off…

— P.G. Wodehouse

I think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue that goes…

— Maynard James Keenan

Propaganda begins when dialogue ends.

— Jacques Ellul

I am not a great believer in dialectical struggle. I am much more of a fusion person. I see it as a dialogue, or…

— Marina Warner

Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.

— Daisaku Ikeda

“Clay, if anyone followed anyone, it was me tagging along after you. I didn’t dare order you around.” “Load of shit,” he muttered, but…

— Nalini Singh

It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces…

— David Bohm

A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds.

— Deborah Tannen

“To engage in dialogue is to serve others via whatever is real inside you; to engage in debate is to ultimately serve the illusions…

— Oli Anderson