Accurate Quote by Dick Wolf

If you talk in a way that is too dissimilar to the character, when people are showing up to see you talk about the…

— Zach Woods

Dialogue is used to reveal not what we want to say, but what we are trying to hide.

— William Monahan

Talk shows are proof that conversation is dead.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Diane Johnson

Good dialogue illuminates what people are not saying

— Robert Towne

During the actual filming, I’m not really listening to dialogue. I’m watching to see if the actors are communicating something and expressing something. I’m…

— John Cassavetes

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

— Craig T. Nelson

In real life, people fumble their words. They repeat themselves and stare blankly off into space and don't listen properly to what other people…

— Christopher Guest

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I think viewers are hungry for shows in which people say something meaningful.

— Michael Landon

When I'm on television, I'm talking to millions of people, so the conversation is totally different. My words are different. My diction is different…

— Keyshawn Johnson

I think it's insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence.

— Asghar Farhadi

So much of what passes for conversation today is degraded. It's either about one-upmanship, or dreary trivia. Even the cut and thrust of wit…

— Theodore Zeldin