Chris Milk Quotes

I guess I'm trying to write stuff that I, as a viewer, would connect to.

And that's what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves - parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it's pretty spectacular.

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

Whenever I perform, people get me because I'm talking about things that people can identify with and relate to. I'm not just up there doing jokey, jokey, joke.

As a filmmaker, you're looking to reveal something. When other people relate to it, it makes an otherwise lonely world a little less lonely.

I just think that good stories are stories that reflect ourselves back at us and each other.

Actors do movies because you want to make a connection; you want an audience to recognise themselves in what it is that you're depicting.

That's the power of fiction, that it can take the collective and make it personal.

Somewhere, the audience relates to my characters and their vulnerability. I believe they see themselves in me.

If I want people to connect to my words and my stories, I need to tell them where they came from. Because then, when you break into song, they have kind of a blueprint for why I wrote that song, so they can come to it with something they went through that helps them connect to it.

There are some movies you do for the character; there are some movies you do for the people.

What I have that's special in my music is substance. It's music that people can really relate to. I know I'm gonna rap something that somebody has already been through in their life, something that they will understand.

I think unintentionally I gravitate towards concepts and topics that hit home or are something real we can all relate to.

I think readers are just looking for things that maybe they recognize or can relate to in the books.

I had self-doubt about whether my story was interesting to people. I didn't want to write something that was anecdotal. It was important to me that people would get something out of my book. I want people to read it and say, "Now I don't feel so alone," or "I'm going to remember that next time I'm being an asshole."

In a way, I managed to get the deepest things, the best things out of people. That's why I'm a filmmaker. If you don't have it in you, you'd better do something else.

On a superhero show, you have to have people who are really human and who have the experience the audience is having.

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

I have the great privilege of being both witness and storyteller. Intimacy, trust and intuition guide my work.

I love the fact that people can relate to what I'm saying, even if it's not for the same subject I was writing about. That is the power of real music and real expression.

There's been a vacuum with movies that people can relate to. There's been a paucity of dramas that people can relate to. I think audiences are clamoring to connect - particularly after 9/11 - with things that are genuine and real and I think documentaries are filling that need.

Garry Marshall is a joy. I feel so utterly safe in his hands.

I've found that the common humanity of people is the most relatable thing, and even if your stories are very specific about a different place, if you have a relatable core of humanity, people will go along with it.

Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation. This is what I try to tell my students: this is one great thing that literature can do - it can make us identify with situations and people far away.

I tell stories about people audiences might think they have nothing in common with, then they emotionally connect with them and find they're not different at all.