David Rakoff Quotes

I think stories get better the more people try to amuse themselves.

Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music. My sister takes her ideas and fashions them into poems. My brother uses his ideas to help him understand science. I take my ideas and turn them into stories.

The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it can entertain, move people and teach us all.

I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.

I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.

I've always been drawn to stories and telling them; whether it was through being a part of theater when I was a little kid, or film, or with music, there's just been an innate desire to feel that connection.

I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress. I didn't realize then that it's the same impulse. It's make-believe. It's performance.

I like to read and write and take pictures and bike.

Between films you try to fill your life with hobbies; acting is really so satisfying when you're doing it, and definitely feeds your imagination and creativity to a great degree, but you can't really take much away from it to show for it. I try to fill my time with other things.

I think that's why I keep being drawn back to television, because I think it's one of the most creative outlets.

We all have an escape. Mine was theater.

I love doing different things where, for a little while, I can focus on standup then sketch writing, then performing, then directing a video. That, to me, is stimulating.

Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.

I was trying to be a writer, and I was kind of getting sidetracked, so I started doing cartoons as a form of expression.

Seeing people cosplaying my characters is always a blast.

I want to make music, I want to act, I want to sing, I want to do something that doesn't make my skin erupt.

I like to tell stories through dancing and singing.

I love acting because it's empowering. It empowers me.

I'm someone who loves to play. I make films so I can have fun with the characters.

I just like to write and then perform.

Acting has always been a way for me to express myself, and show all my vulnerabilities and flaws through my characters.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I feel very lucky to be able to do all three.

Acting has always been such escapism for me.

I had always attended classes and written stories as a creative outlet because I need that, and I thought, in my previous career in a model, the way I approached that was that I believed I was telling a non-verbal story.