Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

For me a film is at its best when you can start filling in the story with your own life experience.

When 'Ally McBeal' started, I went, 'Oh, my God.' It's like what I was doing. 'Bridget Jones' was in the same vein. I identify with all of them.

I'm always looking for that movie that feels like it's hitting me where I need it.

My life is essentially not so unique. On some deeper levels we feel the same, we know the same things. Therefore if I show my life 365 days, moments from those days, it will reflect and it will have connection with lives of all of us.

Generally, if I read something that I think is really good and that I feel a connection with and is right for me, I see and hear who the guy is, as manifested by me.

I think audiences are really thirsty for real shows about real people in any circumstances.

Hopefully when you listen to a song, you can say, 'That's me,' or 'That's someone I know' - you relate to it in a way that's cathartic.

I don't like lyrics to be overbearing. I like them to say something. But I'm not trying to change the world overnight. Something simple and understandable that people can relate their own everyday experiences to.

It's super dope when you connect with something personally.

I am most attracted to characters and stories that I can relate to. The traditional formula of 'larger than life' I never found attractive.

I don't do films because they tell a particular kind of story, I do films with stories that touch me.

I've come to realize that people connect more when they know you're telling them the truth or some aspect of your story, some mutated version of how you are experiencing this life.

When the reader hears strong echoes of his or her own life and beliefs, he or she is apt to become more invested in the story.

Poems are other people's snapshots in which we see our own lives.

It just seduces you when you read a story and your brain relates to it. You recognize or connect with it. You identify with it; you're bound to.

I'd like to do something that hits close to home.

You just never know if people out there will relate to things when you write them; it matters to you, and to some people it doesn't. Some people are 'I'm not in the mood for that; thanks.'

I want people to know that I'm a real person, and that I've been through normal situations, like crushes and heartbreaks.

I feel like people, when it comes to music, whatever genre, they relate to the story more than just the song.

But work that's got real substance does make people feel, "There's someone else out there who relates to my experience, or who just helped me understand my own experience a little bit better." And I think that's still got enormous value.

Sometimes the lines in a song are lines you wish you could text-message somebody in real life.

Nobody ever wrote a story for me. I told in every story what was really inside my gut, and it came out that way. My stories began to get noticed because the average reader could associate with them.

The artists that I love- whether painters or filmmakers- it's because something resonates in me because I've felt it.

The number one thing I want my videos to be is relatable.

I think you have to have a personal connection, and that's what I am always looking to try to create: a personal way in to a story.