Communication Quote by Patrice Pavis

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

Dialogue is character and character is plot.

— George V

What's great about theater and drama is it thrives on dialogue, and dialogue thrives on people with different points of view fighting for what…

— Mike Bartlett

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

— Diane Johnson

I think, through comedy, sometimes we're allowed to discuss things that you'd never be able to talk about in a drama.

— Jason Reitman

Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another.

— Elizabeth Bowen

“Dialogue in a romance novel serves a larger purpose than simply to provide exposition and demonstrate character. What is said between the hero and…

— Linda Barlow and Jayne Ann Krentz

Each piece of dialogue MUST be "something happening". . .The "amusing" for its OWN sake should above all be censored. . .The functional use…

— Elizabeth Bowen

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

— Rebecca West

Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.

— Clint Eastwood

As actors, we were fighting that tooth and nail because of fear, because language is a crutch and dialogue is a crutch, and it's…

— Charlize Theron

Comedy opens you up to ideas that a straight-up drama doesn't. You resist those messages when they come to you earnestly or dramatically.

— Rick Famuyiwa