“I didn't intend to go in that direction but strange things happen when the lights go out.” — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
I like telling the story in a visual way. I don't like explaining a lot in dialogue. — Sofia Coppola Copy Share Image
What The Source becomes, in a physical sense, is almost like this particle accelerator. There's all these different, discrete voices and ideas.… — Doug Aitken Copy Share Image
The line of dialogue belongs to the character; the verb is the writer sticking his nose in. — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Speak your dialogue out loud. If it sounds like the way people talk, then write it down. — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
That is very different from how it used to be in the 20th century. Media was very one way. There's a small… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
For all forms, writing dialogue is almost like writing music. I pay close attention to rhythms and tones. — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
Acting for me was an escape and it wasn't until Smoke Signals that made me realize that acting is a personal development… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
“In 80% of Socrates' dialogues there was no constructive outcome. He saw his role as simply pointing out what was "wrong.” — Edward De Bono Copy Share Image
It's not enough simply to record the way people actually talk. The dialogue must be concentrated, shaped, dramatically moving, in a way… — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
I don't want to be in a movie with 20 minutes of dialogue and then stand around while the robots start explosions. — Henry Hopper Copy Share Image
Europeans should pay more attention. Iran has called for dialogue and is moving in the direction of reaching an agreement through peaceful… — Ali Larijani Copy Share Image
When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become attainable. — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
When I first started writing plays I couldn't write good dialogue because I didn't respect how black people talked. I thought that… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
Everyone seems agreed that writing about sex is perilous, partly because it threatens to swamp highly individualised characters in a generic, featureless… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
To create tension, dialogue needs to be stretched out. That is, characters should not be immediately responsive. — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
And in the last sentence I would like also to mention that Poland is one of the countries with which the United… — Marek Belka Copy Share Image
Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I feel that Pride and Prejudice is an incredibly well constructed novel on every level. The dialogue is great. The character development… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I think subjectivity plays into everything. It's unavoidable; you couldn't avoid it if you tried. I think, potentially, a lot more commercial… — Lily Cole Copy Share Image
I have been interested in the dialogue of abstraction and modernist painting - and the rich history of the grid. I also… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
New dramatic writing has banished conversational dialogue from the stage as a relic of dramaturgy based on conflict and exchange: any story,… — Patrice Pavis Copy Share Image
I’m more interested in a photography that is ‘unfinished’ - a photography that is suggestive and can trigger a conversation or dialogue.… — Paolo Pellegrin Copy Share Image
