Communication Quote by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech.

— Ernest Hemingway

Movie dialogue is movie dialogue. It can sound real, but no one speaks that way.

— Brian Helgeland

I feel any actor can deliver a dialogue but real acting is how one reacts to the dialogue.

— Ammy Virk

It's not enough simply to record the way people actually talk. The dialogue must be concentrated, shaped, dramatically moving, in a way that real-life…

— Philip Gerard

Dialogue must appear realistic without being so. Actual realism-the lifting, as it were, of passages from a stenographer's take-down of a 'real life' conversation-would…

— Elizabeth Bowen

Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of exchanges that…

— Sol Stein

Do remember, though, that unless you're a playwright, the result [dialogue] isn't what you want; it's only an element of what you want. Actors…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I think actors always find the dialogue doesn't quite fit, so you always have to play with it.

— Felicity Jones

I find that dialogue is bad in most scripts. I just think there are very few writers that can capture the natural way people…

— Stephen Dorff

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story…

— Alfred Hitchcock

On the whole, dialogue is the most difficult thing, without any doubt. It's very difficult, unfortunately. You have to detach yourself from the notion…

— John Fowles

I like a lot of good dialogue if it is well-acted.

— James Ivory