Shirley Henderson Quotes

I'm sticking to the script, I'm putting that organic feeling back in the game.

In all of my career, the style is still the same, and that is of a friend, just sitting and talking.

From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make it seem more authentic.

The game is just one long conversation, and I'm anticipating that, and I will say things like 'Did you know that?' or 'You're probably wondering why.' I'm really just conversing rather than just doing play-by-play. I never thought of myself as having a style. I don't use key words. And the best thing I do? I shut up.

Because I was a television writer for many years, I write very conversationally. I put things straight, and with a lot of humor.

The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.

During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.

I don't think I talk to anybody the same way I talk to Moby.

We wanted it more live and raw. We didn't want a studio sound.

I always like earthy, authentic sounds.

I don't really want to make a stylized film or anything too surreal.

I think the best writers use the language they use every day when they talk to friends. When we talk to each other, we tend to talk in short grabs rather than in long flowing sentences. I think that's not a bad way to write.

The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.

I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very often, was from Jack Paar, who said, 'Kid, don't make it an interview. Interviews have clipboards, and you're like David Frost. Make it a conversation.'

I would only ever be involved in a reality show that was about real life and had lots of action.

I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.

With some writers, the script looks beautiful on the page, but nobody actually speaks like that.

I'm not an interviewer. I have conversations.

Story may not be a great addition to some games - games where action is the whole reason for the game to exist.

Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It doesn't always work, and one shouldn't always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation.

For film and TV, try to have a more conversational tone. For stage, you'll need better diction and bigger vocal production.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

I love Bill Finn's stuff. It's so rewarding for an actor. It's conversational but intricate. He writes some beautiful, simple songs and melodies, but he also writes this cacophony for people.

By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to my best friend or one of my grandchildren.

Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.