Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person.
Skype is a wonderful thing. The irony is that you never Skype when you're in the same country as someone.
It's nice to be able to communicate digitally with people around the world.
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
Separation is the worst. There's no good way to deal with it, other than to get on the phone and do Skype and try to visit.
No man who drank or smoked could ever come nearer to me than the telephone. I'd say, I won't let you - you nicotine-soaked, beer-besmeared, whiskey-greased, red-eyed devil - talk to me face to face.
The commentary track became a lot like the movie and there are some funny, long, awkward pauses that you can tell we're just trying to find stuff to say. None of us had gotten to really talk about the movie until that moment and they were in New York and we were in L.A.
We also try to reach out to people who are far away, via digital means, the web and brief messaging.
Letters had always defeated distance, but with the coming of e-mail, time seemed to be vanquished as well.
Lady, can you speak up a little bit? Indianapolis is a little far from Europe - I can't hear you.
I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm having trouble. I've just sacked my second screenwriter.
When she was in United States, we maintained contact, we talked to each other on the phone, almost every night. And there was one occasion I tried to fix this video conferencing but somehow it did not come out very well enough so better to talk on the phone.
There is never going to be a substitute for face-to-face communication, but we have seen since the alphabet, to the telephone and now the Internet, that whenever people find a new way to communicate, they will flock to it.
With the dramatic increase in ease of transportation and the incredible decrease in the amount of time required to travel between far-flung areas of the United States, representatives began spending more and more time in Washington and less and less time in their home districts.
I don't want families to be separated by very, very long distances.
I was in a long-distance relationship. There's a lot of heartache in distance, and in proximity - those ideas you have when you're next to someone who you haven't seen in a month.
What living occasion can, Be just to the absent?
It's hard 'coz you have got different time zones; you can't sleep and y'know, it's boring way for the show to happen, but you do off the stage. Y'know, onstage it's all better.
There's nothing sadder to me than associations held together by nothing but the glue of postage stamps. If you can't see or hear or touch a man, it's best to let him go.
