Genuine Dialogue Quotes

I'm not an interviewer. I have conversations.

It's great when you have people who will speak passionately and honestly about what they are doing.

I know how I want to operate as an artist. And that is by having an honest, genuine dialogue about this kind of screwed up journey I've had that I'm so thankful for.

In my own life, when I was most inspired by a teacher, it always involved a real dialogue, a looseness and a real caring and compassion. It was not without rigor, not without discipline, not without standards, but all that was done out of love.

nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

Being morally honest means sitting down and actually listening to a person and understanding where they're coming from.

In this great age of communication, there a lot of people you can't actually understand. I know everyone tweets, and twits and texts and all that, but actually we've all got voices, and it is awfully nice to hear them and if you can understand what people are saying.

I happen to disagree with the well-entrenched theory that the art of conversation is merely the art of being a good listener. Such advice invites people to be cynical with one another and full of fake; when a conversation becomes a monologue, poked along with tiny cattle-prod questions, it isn't a conversation any more.

In short, we lose the freshness and spontaneity of true conversation. These are areas in which everyone interested in self-improvement will seek to improve.

The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.

Instead of making others right or wrong, or bottling up right and wrong in ourselves, there's a middle way, a very powerful middle way...... Could we have no agenda when we walk into a room with another person, not know what to say, not make that person wrong or right? Could we see, hear, feel other people as they really are? It is powerful to practice this way..... true communication can happen only in that open space.

I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.

The words that come direct from the people are the greatest... If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.

At times, I can be vocal about what I think people want to hear as opposed to being vocal about what I really feel.

That's why people read books. You get to have the real conversation, as opposed to the pseudo-conversations we have in everyday life.

If you must take care that your opinions do not differ in the least from those of the person with whom you are talking, you might just as well be alone.

I think my viewers want smart, honest programming. They don't want to be told what makes them feel good.

I remain convinced that most human conflicts can be solved through genuine dialogue conducted with a spirit of openness and reconciliation.

I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they really think and feel. The conversation becomes a real conversation.

There is no such thing as realistic dialogue. If you [simply recorded] the real conversation of any people and played it back from the stage, it would be impossible to listen to. It would be redundant . . . . The good dialogue writer is the one who can give you the impression of real speech.

In one word, if I have to describe 'Damadamm!' then I will say that the performances, the music, and the script reflect sincerity.

I want to tell authentic, real stories with real characters.

There's lots of good movies where you feel that the dialogue could be improvised, but very little was. The "Big Lebowski" was like that where people say "oh, you know, that sounds so..." and we'd always go back and get every man, every ellipses in there the way these guys write it. Because not only is it saying what Michael wants the character to say but the way they all speak kind of creates this tone because it's not exactly real.

I talk to grown-ups who are out to have a good time and they want to be spoken to in a different way. I don't want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.