Dialogue Quotes · Page 20

It's a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don't understand that. Social media is more like a telephone than a television.

— Amy Jo Martin

In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other.

— Diane Johnson

I look at it [Scream movie] and think, wow, I can't believe I wrote that at such a young age. I also…

— Kevin D. Williamson

Dialogue should convey a sense of spontaneity but eliminate the repetitiveness of real talk.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Dialogue is the basis of Indian culture, and we don't want to make any enemies. Political and ideological adversaries, perhaps, but not…

— Evo Morales

I'd like to get more bit-acting roles. I don't know if my talent would allow for a long dialogue, but I could…

— Hannibal Buress

Correction of Earlier Entry: 8/01/12We read over the shoulders of giants; books place us in dialogue not just with an author but…

— Leah Price

Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the…

— Bruno Dumont

As I got farther and farther along in the series I did less and less preparation. I didn't use outlines or sketches.…

— Jhonen Vasquez

When our founders created America, it was in the age of the printing press, when individuals could freely join the conversation. And…

— Al Gore

When you're with your wife, you don't say I love you to your wife every day but the ways you look at…

— Michel Hazanavicius

Rex Stout's narrative and dialogue could not be improved, and he passes the supreme test of being rereadable. I don't know how…

— P. G. Wodehouse

Games are not about being told things. If you want to tell people things, write a book or make a movie. Games…

— Warren Spector

It's a lucky circumstance when you get to usher in new work, because you are able to ask the playwright and the…

— Gideon Glick

A culture of dialogue is breaking down and giving way to a culture of threats and impunity, you can see the strategy…

— Sophal Ear

I retain characters more often than plot, but what seems to happen is that I latch on to specific moments, turns of…

— Sarah Weinman

Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the…

— Bruno Dumont

Cartooning is completely different from other media: it is closely related to film and prose, other narrative forms, but the skills needed…

— Jessica Abel

“In looking at our our individual classroom pedagogies and our isolated artistic endeavors, we must broaden the frame of analysis to consider…

— Ann Elizabeth Armstrong

The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. The boys have gone hog-wild…

— Dorothy Parker

When you have an American mother from the Midwest and an Egyptian father, you travel back and forth and see such completely…

— Jehane Noujaim

“I believe that before we can truly dialogue with one another we must first perceive intellectually, and then at the profoundest emotiomal…

— John Howard Griffin

I don't understand choreographers who say they don't care about the audience or that they would be happy to present their works…

— Dana Tai Soon Burgess

“Quiet pragmatism, of course, lacks the romance of vocal militancy. But I felt myself more a mediator than a crusader. My strengths…

— Sonia Sotomayor

This new form of dialogue that is bringing us to the art to which I have dedicated my life, is rooted in…

— Alicia Alonso

Well, my husband is supportive of my work, like advocating for dialogue between cultures on YouTube.

— Queen Rania of Jordan

When it comes to boys and her weight, I think Ellenor is much more conservative than I am, and she has not…

— Camryn Manheim

Too many brands treat social media as a one way, broadcast channel, rather than a two-way dialogue through which emotional storytelling can…

— Simon Mainwaring

If people are going to watch TV, let's give them something coherent with actual dialogue.

— Craig T. Nelson

“All forms of art must contribute to the discursive dialogue regarding the composition of the malleable human condition.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become.

— Carlos Castaneda

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

What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.

— Terri Windling

Most of the time, tough, combative, adversarial dialogue is much more exciting than physical action.

— Sol Stein

And dialogue, I'm good at it, and it's because it's the only thing you have to work with in TV writing.

— Maria Semple

Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.

— Marsha Norman

Better talk than fight, if nothing of sovereign value is anyway lost. Dialogue has achieved more than confrontation in many parts of…

— Anonymous

Through my work and ways of expression, I strive to engage in dialogue with the society that I am living in.

— Ai Weiwei

We are of the opinion that we can achieve a great deal more by way of a dialogue than by a permanently…

— Karl-Heinz Rummenigge

The first thing you have to learn is how to conduct dialogue and how to make it productive.

— Bashar al-Assad