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Dialog Quotes

How conversation carries a story.

These quotes come from people who build scenes for a living - one assembles every scene like a silent movie before adding dialog, while another describes the ongoing conversation we inherit through genetics.

When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.

Quotes by Walter Murch

The idea that you're made up of the people that come before you and you somehow have some kind of conscious dialog with your genetics - I think it's really deep and interesting stuff.

Quotes by Justin Kurzel

With video games, imagine it's not locked - it's a TV show people can reach in and do this and do that, and you need to have dialog for all of that stuff.

Quotes by Justin Roiland

Some of those early roles were unactable. Even Laurence Olivier couldn't have done anything with them. The dialog ran to cardboard passages such as, 'I love you. You can rely on me, darling. I'll wait.' It was all I could...

Quotes by John Gavin

Act Quotes

Finding a writer who can write decent kids' dialog and finding kids that can act realistically and not 'cute' is an effort.

Quotes by Joe Dante

I know it may seem surprising to people, but learning dialog that has a conversational flow to it is not that difficult.

Quotes by Deidre Hall

I can assure you I'm quite sane and have proof that dialog 'works.'

Quotes by Betty Williams

I like that part of the culture of 'MST3K' is this constant dialog on what movies could be done and what movies should be done. I've seen plenty of bad movies and walked out afterward thinking 'That would have been...

Quotes by Baron Vaughn

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Frequently Asked Questions

What professional insight do these dialog quotes offer?
One filmmaker explains assembling every scene like a silent movie first, even dialog-heavy ones, before layering in the spoken lines.
Do any quotes connect dialog to video games?
Yes, one quote compares an unlocked game to an interactive TV show, arguing it needs dialog written for every possible player choice.
Is there a quote about dialog and genetics?
One reflective quote frames inherited traits as a kind of ongoing conscious dialog with the people who came before us, genetically speaking.
What's said about old movie dialog?
One quote criticizes early film roles as unactable, with cardboard dialog so weak that even Laurence Olivier couldn't have rescued them.
Who benefits from reading these dialog quotes?
Screenwriters, actors, and anyone curious how professionals think about crafting spoken lines that feel real rather than Bad or wooden.

There's also a candid jab at old-fashioned, wooden movie dialog that even a great actor couldn't save. Explore more on Assembling a scene and the craft of writing lines that don't feel Bad.