I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever.
I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over.
If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue.
The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.
From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make it seem more authentic.
Television is a prisoner of dialogue and steady-cam. People walk down a hall, and the camera follows them around a corner.
Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.
We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed.
By the time I wrote 'Any Given Sunday' or 'Bats,' I sort of knew what my job was in terms of what a writer of dialogue does.
Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
Sport allows us to engage in dialogue and to build bridges, and it may even have the capacity to reshape international relations. The Olympic Games embody perfectly this universal mission.
Instead of fostering the kind of dialogue in the boardroom that has in part contributed to our success, the board has inappropriately chosen to silence my concerns through termination as an executive officer.
When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.
When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility so that there is a dialogue with the creative side.
I kept the same suit for six years and the same dialogue. They just changed the title of the picture and the leading lady.
I don't see myself as a rock star. I don't see myself in that way. I'm interested in work that offers some sort of critical dialogue.
I feel the feminist movement has excluded black women. You cannot talk about being black and a woman within traditional feminist dialogue.
Men employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.
It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other, including strangers.
We must understand that out of community and dialogue, the answers will arrive in their own time and way.
