Trevor Paglen Quotes

I want to put out music that everyday people can relate to.

The one thing people like about my show is it's universal. Everybody can relate to it. I think people enjoy going to a show and saying, 'Something like that happened to me.'

There's this common sense idea that in order to appeal to the biggest number of people, you have to write something very general, but my experience is the more specific you make something, the more people respond to it, in a very odd way.

As a filmmaker, you are constantly having the discussion with your team about whether something is "relatable".

No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.

I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.

In today's time, writing stuff that actually happened is touch-and-go, because you don't want to be too personal. If you are, then it probably won't relate to a mass audience. A lot of times you have to make it sound like it's about everybody else, but you really went through it.

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.

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

That's what's amazing about songwriting: you can write a story that everyone connects to.

I'm interested in putting something on stage that will have a very wide appeal without being condescending; that will reach an audience and make it part of the dance; that will get everybody in the theater.

When a piece of art gets really specific is usually when anybody can relate to it.

Obviously, when you're working at things, you all hope that people will relate to it.

Anyone in any part of the country will connect with 'Laagi'… because it has very strong emotions.

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.

As a writer, every time I create a character, I try to go for something to captivate the audience in some way. It's also an extension of how the audience would like to see themselves.

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

I don't have an ideal reader. I'm trying to reach something simple and, I believe, universal, in every single person.

I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand.

I took William Zinsser's advice that you write to yourself and you hope that there are people out there who are like you.

It was easy for viewers to identify with our show. The characters were believable.

I gotta be dope first. I gotta be appealing to your senses, and to what you like first. Then the message happens. Then you relate to the message.

Teens wanted things that were real, that they connected with, it doesn't have to reflect reality directly. They love 'The Hunger Games' not because it's real in that it happens, but the emotions there are real, and it's very relatable.

I think a great song appeals to older and younger people and it makes you think. It's also honest, and it also doesn't hurt if it's fun to sing along to.