Nate Powell Quotes

I think when I say universal, it means making a project that everybody can enjoy but also a project where they're getting closer to you.

You can't tell an audience to like a character. And I think the best way to get the audience on someone's side is to embarrass them.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.

Accessible design is good design.

My feelings towards the newspapers are very affectionate.

The highest power of television journalism is not the transmission of information but the transmission of experience.

Empathy is key in the design process, especially when you start expanding outside of your comfort zone to new languages, cultures, and age groups. If you try to assume what those people want, you're likely to get it wrong.

Point of view gets me. If I can feel like a character rather than a reader, I'll read that book.

It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.

Everybody has felt at one time or another that everyone else in the world had a better shot than they did, so when you engage that, you engage the reader, and I think you create a character that brings the reader more fully into the story.

I think with my hands. I design things to be touched-not for a museum. A piece is ready when it has the shape of something to cherish.

I love touring, I love making records, but eventually all I want...I want to score. I want people to ask me to score their film or use my songs in cinematic ways. I think the ultimate media is a story that you can watch and feel and have a musical moment to. I think it's my favorite. I love watching something when music is creating motion within the motion.

I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful.

There is something wonderful about a book. We can pick it up. We can heft it. We can read it. We can set it down. We can think of what we have read. It does something for us. We can share great minds, great actions, and great undertakings in the pages of a book.

I like how I'm able to be curvy and beautiful and represent that in media, because I don't think it's shown often enough.

The joy of reading can take you so many different places. In addition to intelligence and stretching your mind, I just think reading is so crucial in terms of being a well-rounded person.

Comic books are just a way to show a story. Then there are the movies, and television and exhibits like this that take the stories and make them seem so realistic. In the comic book, you're just reading a story - hopefully a good, exciting story that whets your appetite for all of this stuff to come.

When you read with your child, you show them that reading is important, but you also show them they're important - that they are so important to you that you will spend 20 minutes a day with your arm around them.

I don't really ever think in terms of what type of person I'd love to play. I usually just read stuff and can tell.

I think in television there's more of an awareness about a need for more diversity, but there still needs to be great practical strides taken to improve diversity in front of and behind the camera.

Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.

I think sometimes the very reason we go through something is so that we can be empathetic with another person later on.

To hold the reader's attention, you have to bring the person who's reading the book inside the experience of the time: What was it like to have been alive then? What were these people like as human beings?

My favorite films are when all of the technicalities are so seamless and so well done that I'm not thinking about them - you're able to go full-on into the story versus talking about edgy this moment was.