You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other - the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.
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Like, I'm a big fan of films from the '70s, like Cassavetes and things, where they just keep the dialogue really loose and just kind of roll, you know what I mean?
Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.
Movie dialogue is movie dialogue. It can sound real, but no one speaks that way.
I think actors always find the dialogue doesn't quite fit, so you always have to play with it.
When you hear someone talking in a restaurant or overhear someone talking on the street, there are very different patterns of conversation than you would hear in a conventional movie.
I don't believe there is something called 'film' and something called 'theater,' and that words belong in the theater. Some rather bad films have few words in them; some good films have a lot of words in them.
One of the characteristics of plays that are made into films is that they can be very talky.
I think at the point when they were first starting to talk about a movie, it was a little bit different back then.
In every movie I do have a dialogue.
I think I've always been drawn to the notion of talk as cinematic.