Action Quote by Lee Wyndham

Actors have to have conversations not just with dialogue but with silences.

— Aaron Pedersen

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

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

— Rebecca West

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

Conversations are an essential part of our daily lives. One cannot imagine life without talking or hearing. But somewhere between the hearing and saying…

— Shweta Basu Prasad

Good dialogue illuminates what people are not saying

— Robert Towne

Conversation is the art of speaking without thinking.

— Victor De Kowa

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

There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes.

— Anonymous

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.

— Margaret Millar

When it comes to thinking about how a character talks, there are literary and language considerations. For actors to be able to differentiate between…

— Mike Leigh

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses

— Margaret Miller