Steve Buscemi Quotes

Conversation is a really good way to get things done.

Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.

You have to communicate - you have to click - to find automatic reactions with your teammates.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.

Communicate, communicate, and then communicate some more.

When I'm doing a one-on-one with somebody, I have to speak in a language that that person can understand, using a vocabulary that they instantly get, and I always have to feel my way around to figure that out. It's a lot of fun, and it's also really challenging - challenging in a different way from performing.

Certainly I'm always willing to talk to anyone who's interested in talking to me!

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

The lifelong goal of an improviser is to listen to what the other person is saying, taking it in, and responding.

Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

You can't make people respond.

Understanding is a two-way street.

If you listen, you'll learn. If you talk over each other, you don't accomplish anything.

Talking to people is not giving them anything.

if we stop talking at one another, and start talking with one another, we can get a lot done.

I mean, I'm a big believer in talking to people when you can and trying to solve problems when you can.

Whether you lead a nation, an enterprise, a community, or a family, we are all in the communication business.

Conflict resolution, all those things, are important. When you're in a group environment, you have to have those. If you don't, things fester. Have the conversation. Resolve it. Move forward.

Communication isn't just directing a guy on what to do: it's passing the information along to the guy that's next to you, and that's where we make the calls come to life.

I love talking to people, and I'll listen to what they have to say, and if they have ideas or something like that, I'll put you to work.

I want to spend time sitting down with as many people as possible and learn the important issues before us.

I have been fortunate to collaborate with people who have been open to discussion. If I tell them something, they have always explained to me why they want it the other way.

'Dialogue' is not a dirty word; it's our word.

It's important for people to give every leader the chance to step forward and look for ways to have dialogue.