Yorgos Lanthimos Quotes

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.

I'm kind of looking for something with a lot less action and more talking and listening.

There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.

I am conversational - I just like to engage and talk about things.

Now, you've seen that each one of us have a couple of soapboxes that we like to mount. And after about five minutes of our opinion, then we ask you a question.

Talking to people is not giving them anything.

You ask me a question. I have a blank mind. You ask me a question, and the question is informed, and you're interested, and now my mind starts popping. That's what conversation is. That's what communicating is.

I liked being able to speak to somebody and throw it back and forth, and they can't predict what you're going to say next.

What you want to do is make people talk, start a conversation.

...every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.

I go around the room and ask people, 'What do you think?'

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.

I'm a talker. I love a good debate.

The best ideas start as conversations.

It's good to talk to people and get ideas.

I'm not an interviewer. I have conversations.

I love conversation and the sharing of different thoughts and philosophies. That kind of stuff always makes me happy. I don't mind interviews, either - I like doing them.

There's always something to talk about.

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

Roz, what think??

A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience. Modern society is too vast and too restless to give a conversationalist a fair chance.

Nothing trumps good conversation.

I'm fine talking about a lot of things.

Life is a conversation. Make it a good one.

I think that's the most important thing: that we create dialogue.