Definition of Dialogue

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Dialogue

A conversation between two or more persons; particularly, a formal conservation in theatrical performances or in scholastic exercises.

A written composition in which two or more persons are represented as conversing or reasoning on some topic; as, the Dialogues of Plato.

To take part in a dialogue; to dialogize.

To express as in dialogue.

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Dialogue Quotations

I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over.
Elvis Presley

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
Truman Capote

I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.
Quentin Tarantino

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
Alfred Hitchcock

I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue.
Francis Ford Coppola

The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how to overcome them.
Daniel Goleman

As I got farther and farther along in the series I did less and less preparation. I didn't use outlines or sketches. I just had a vague idea of what I wanted to tell and then the dialogue just came to me as I was inking the page.
Jhonen Vasquez

I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.
Anthony Hopkins

A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly transforming in the process of the dialogue.
David Bohm

He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden dialogue.
George Lucas

Dialogue Translations

dialogue in Dutch is tweegesprek, tweespraak, dialoog
dialogue in French is dialogue
dialogue in Italian is dialogo
dialogue in Swedish is dialog

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