Milan Kundera Quotes

It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

The best thing I could say is you do have to be a really good listener. If I go to a family reunion, and there's 400 people there, everybody comes up and tells me their stories, right? And I think that when you're a good listener, and you can imagine how someone's talking, dialogue is your key friend, is it not?

Humans are fascinated with communication. I was always drawn to words and stories, staying in touch with your feelings and being open to what's around you.

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

I'm really interested in how we understand each other - and whether we can understand each other.

I feel that we Germans are spending less and less time talking to each other. And even less time listening to each other.

In apartments and cottages, on the street and in the train... I listen... More and more, I turn into one large ear, always turning to another person.

It's important to tell your story. It's important to listen.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Eavesdrop and write it down from memory - gives you a stronger sense of how people talk and what their concerns are. I love to eavesdrop!

Connecting with Canadians isn't about what you say, it's about what you're listening to. It's about what you understand.

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

Communication is so key.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

My job is about playing people. And I think once you lose touch with people, what do you play?

I love meeting new people; I think everyone has a story to tell. We should all listen sometimes.

So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.

It's important for me who is at the table with me; the moment when everyone speaks to each other and everyone listens. If there's good food, it's much better.

Love without conversation is impossible.

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.

So I think it's better to say something than not to say anything at all, even to an ignorant person.

Communication is at the very core of our society. That's what makes us human.