“A lot of times, you're circling around a lot of things, and then you find that one person, or that little piece of dialogue, and it doesn't always have to be in person.” LittlesPersonsPiecesDialogueThat One Person Author:Nick Kroll
“Freud believed that our dreams sometimes recapitulate a speech, a comment we've heard or something that we've read. I always had compositions in my dreams. They would be a joke, a piece of a novel, a witticism or a piece of dialogue from a play, and I would dream them. I would actually express them line by line in the dream. Sometimes after waking up I would remember a snatch or two and write them down. There's something in me that just wants to create dialogue.” WantWritingTwoSometimesPlayDreamWould BeRememberLinesNovelPiecesHeardSpeechJokesWake UpDialogueCommentWakingCompositionOur Dreams Author:David Mamet
“A piece of literature can be many things but first of all it must capture its audience. You need to seduce people, entice them into a world of beauty and horror, light and shadow, of passion, of romance, of mystery. That's the magic of it. Beyond that, of course, you can open a dialogue about the ideas which interest you, but first of all you absolutely must get inside people's minds.” PeopleWorldNeedsMindFirstsIdeasLightRomancePassionCoursesLiteratureInterestAudiencePiecesMagicMysteryHorrorShadowDialogueCaptureSeducingLight And Shadow Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“I enjoyed Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom.' Would I make that into a film? I think it's better suited to television. That would very much be a dialogue and performance piece, and it would take some very skilful direction - but not my kind of directing. But I thought it was a real literary work.” ThinkingKindRealFilmPiecesTelevisionPerformancesDialogueEnjoyedLiterary Works Author:Peter Weir
“Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.” WritingJoyPiecesAnd LoveLongingDialogue Author:Marsha Norman
“When you look at the piece of paper, and there's just words on there, you interpret it as the actor to whatever you think is right. There may not be the hidden meaning behind the dialogue, because you don't really get to see what's going on.” ThinkingLooksMayActorsBehindsPiecesPaperDialogueHidden Meaning Author:James Hong
“Directing is a reactionary job more than a creation job. The job is to react whether it's moment one, the first time you read the script or see an article or read a book or notice something happen on the street and have an idea for a movie, and it just continues from there on in. You're just reacting to dialogue, a performance, an audition, a headache, a piece of furniture, a piece of clothing.” FirstsBookIdeasMomentsHappensJobsPiecesStreetsCreationFirst TimePerformancesScriptsThings HappenDialogueArticlesClothingsAuditionsFurnitureHeadacheReactingReactionaries Author:Jason Reitman
“Reading any piece of writing aloud is an acid test, particularly when it comes to dialogue. There were writers I'd always admired who suddenly rang false when I spoke their words in our living room.” WritingReadingRoomsPiecesTestsDialogueSpokesAcidLiving Room Author:Anne Tyler
“Each piece of dialogue MUST be "something happening". . .The "amusing" for its OWN sake should above all be censored. . .The functional use of dialogue for the plot must be the first thing in the writer's mind. Where functional usefulness cannot be established, dialogue must be left out.” ShouldMindFirstsUseLeftPiecesHappeningsSakeThings HappenDialoguePlotAmusingUsefulnessLeft OutCensored Author:Elizabeth Bowen