Paul Dano Quotes

I hate having to do small talk. I'd rather talk about deep subjects. I'd rather talk about meditation, or the world, or the trees or animals, than small, inane, you know, banter.

I remind myself that I'm always more satisfied by human interaction than by a digital connection.

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

I don't know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.

I have enjoyed every call. The ones involving direct contact with people have been most rewarding.

Interestingly, I'm more closed on set than I am off set. On set, I'm closed. I don't want input. I want to concentrate on what I'm doing with this other person. But outside of that, I'm open. I'm everybody's friend, unless they don't like me.

It's hard to say exactly what it is about face-to-face contact that makes deals happen, but whatever it is, it hasn't yet been duplicated by technology.

The first thing that I do when I come out every night is to look at the faces in front of me, very individually.

I suppose meeting people whether it's in real life and actually shaking their flesh and blood hand or shaking the mystical hand of the character all rub off on you in some way.

The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking.

She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table.

There is nothing I hate more than meeting someone who has forgotten the art of conversing.

The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That's not the way humanity has courted.

Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face.

It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up.

You don't ask people about the immigration policies of the U.K. or their country's agricultural policy. Instead, you talk to them about the meal they're eating or their family, and from that you get the sense of another human being, someone we can all relate to.

It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one.

I like people-people rather than movie people.

I can't abide small talk.

That's all small talk is - a quick way to connect on a human level - which is why it is by no means as irrelevant as the people who are bad at it insist. In short, it's worth making the effort.

On television, everyone talks and they don't care about the mechanics.

Indeed, though people increasingly learn and interact online, we retain a fundamental need to engage in person.

The difference between face-to-face conversation and any other medium of communication is simple: No distractions are permitted.

I miss people. I miss going anywhere and meeting a random person and saying 'Hi' and having a conversation about life. I love people.

People talk to pass the time, share information, and entertain each other.