When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already unde...rstand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The true use of Shakespeare or of Cervantes, of Homer or of Dante, of Chaucer or of Rabelais, is to augment one's own growing inne...r self.... The mind's dialogue with itself is not primarily a social reality. All that the Western Canon can bring one is the proper use of one's own solitude, that solitude whose final form is one's confrontation with one's own mortality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Creation's blithe and petaled word To the lounged goddess when she rose... Conceding dialogue with eyes That smile unsearchable repose--LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.... And if some lover, such as we, Have heard this dialogue of one, Let him still mark us, he shall see Small change, when we're to bodies gone."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ultimately, it is the receiving of the child and hearing what he or she has to say that develops the child's mind and personhood....... Parents who enter into a dialogue with their children, who draw out and respect their opinions, are more likely to have children whose intellectual and ethical development proceeds rapidly and surely.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The basic unit of construction in the theatre is the scene, and the amount of dramatic time that elapses during a scene is roughly... equal to the length of time the scene takes to perform. To be sure, some plays cover many years, but in general these years pass "between curtains." We're informed that it is "seven years later," either by a stage direction or by the dialogue. The basic unit of construction in movies is the shot, which can lengthen or shorten time more subtly, since the average shot lasts only ten or fifteen seconds. Drama has to chop out huge blocks of time between the relatively few scenes and acts; films can expand or contract time between the many hundreds of shots.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the st...ory in visual terms.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She [Mae West] supplied much of her own dialogue and delivered it with enough eyeball-rolling suggestiveness to disguise the fact ...that she didn't really look very sexy, she just sounded it. Her style was innuendo con brio. Garbo's sensual appeal was based on the assumption that her personality was a castle with no drawbridge; a successful suitor would have to climb the ivy. With Mae West there was a highway to the front door.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »