Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.

The house, and all the objects in it, crackled with static electricity; undertows washed through it, the air was heavy with things that were known but not spoken. Like a hollow log, a drum, a church, it was amplified, so that conversations whispered in it sixty years ago can be half-heard today.

A dialogue is more than two monologues.

He's great. He's a great actor, has a really interesting presence. It kind of reminds me of … he has a quality that Anthony Hopkins has, he has stillness and precision in his delivery. It's really interesting.

They more than delivered on that.