New forms of media - first movies, then television, talk radio and now the Internet - tend to challenge traditional codes of conduct. They flout convention, shake up the status quo and sometimes provoke outrage.
Courtney Rawlinson: Listen Patrick, can we talk? Patrick Bateman: You look... marvelous. There's nothing to say.
George Valentin: [first lines, heard in one of his films] I won't talk! I won't say a word!
Senior Ed Bloom: It's rude to talk about religion, you never know who you're gonna offend.
[Buzz talks to Chuckie's tombstone, leaving a wreath] Buzz Bronski: Chuckie, Chuckie. You always were a loser.
Jesse: I wish I'd meet you earlier. I really like talking to you.
Celine: So what's it like to be married? You haven't talked much about that. Jesse: I haven't? How weird.
I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
Almost everything in 'A Day With Wilbur Robinson' has some basis in truth. And yes, my sister did pay me to feed her grapes while she talked to her boyfriend on the phone.
That's how I prepare for anything - I read whatever I can get my hands on, talk to people. I'm a bit of a nerd like that.
I research every part thoroughly. I talk it out with my actor friends, but then I throw it all away when I get to the set. You have to be spontaneous.
I try to talk about things I know about. But my characters are more of a combination of people or how I imagine people would feel.
It is okay of talking about the past, as long as there's no bitterness and anger. It only gives you a heart attack. It won't change the past either.
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
In my screenplays - from the very beginning I've always used tape. I talk my screenplays. And then have somebody transcribe them.
The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.
A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.
The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.
...stories want to be told. Stories have a power of their own ... you can't write a story until you've felt it. Breathed it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them.
Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping.
You're absolutely right: Bob Grant is a racist, Bob Grant is a bigot, he's a despicable talk show host and I agree with that.
