James Dean Quotes

When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.

If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to.

Period costume films are fun to discover, but they're not relatable. It's more, 'Wow, that's cool - did it really look like that back then?' Whereas with a comedy, you're like, 'Yeah, that's me, that's my friends.' No matter what, I want people to relate.

If people don't sit at Chaplin's feet, he goes out and stands where they are sitting.

I also think a Hot Mom is someone who can connect with what's current in her kids' world.

I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters.

People want real-life stories.

As wild and raunchy as Richard Pryor was, people related to his honesty because they found something in their life that they understood.

I'm not going to be the artist that talks about a million dollar whip and 'I just bought some red bottoms.' That's cool, but that's not all there is to it. I'd rather talk about something everyone can relate to and feel.

If you aren't talking to readers and letting them know you're just like them, they can lose interest.

We strive to do stuff that connects with people.

I don't want to bore people with things that don't matter to them. I want to share parts of my life that are universally true with other people.

I've found that the more honest and true you are and can talk about a character and people's experiences, it's less ostracizing. It actually has the opposite effect than one would think. It makes the characters and the story more inclusive.

Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a 'me too' attitude while impressing evokes a 'so what' attitude

I think if something resonates, even if it's surreal, it's because it is relatable and I think that that's a core issue for me.

There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.

I show them the funny part, the silly part, the laughing part, the crazy part and then the really deep, deep part where I'm talking from my heart to these people. Because I've been through everything they've been through.

I think I'm relatable.

It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.

I don't understand and don't enjoy sci-fi, and it's just that if people aren't real, and they don't live in a real and recognizable society, I don't understand what to do.

With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.

I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.

My approach is a very human one, as a fan.

I look for songs that the listener, when they hear it, they believe what I'm singing about, that I know what I'm singing about. That's my whole deal. I try to choose songs that a male or a female can perform and relate to.

Connecting with Canadians isn't about what you say, it's about what you're listening to. It's about what you understand.