Barack Obama Quotes

If there was one overarching theme to 'True Detective,' I would say it was that, as human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by - so you'd better be careful what stories you tell yourself.

I'm looking for human stories to do.

I love art, but I'm also interested in people's stories.

Human beings. People's stories. That's really what gets me excited.

I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of life is valueless.

I like stories about people. I like things that are human and different. I want to be as engaged in my work as I am in reading a book. I want to be electrified by the films I do.

Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.

I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.

My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.

We've had enough of the generals and movie stars. We want to hear about the ordinary people.

It's not just that everyone has a story. It's that everyone has a thousand stories. Everyone is infinite.

There is this tradition, stretching back to Tacitus and Plutarch, that history belongs to the heroes, the emperors. But I grew up among simple people, and their stories just shattered me. It was painful that no one but me was listening to them.

I make videos about people's stories in a way that is human.

Politics should come from human stories.

I want to keep telling stories of ordinary people.

I'm always interested in people being able to share stories that allow us to see the landscape of human foibles, challenges, and ultimately triumph.

What do you know about yourself? What are your stories? The ones you tell yourself, and the ones told by others. All of us begin somewhere. Though I suppose the truth is that we begin more than once; we begin many times. Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done.

I glance into the faces of all these people out for a Sunday stroll, but I'm not seeing eyes and noses and mouths. I'm seeing stories. Every person has a story. All the hopes and dreams. And fears. And secrets. In every face.

Everybody's got a story that could break your heart.

words are but drops pressed out of the lives of those who lived them.

My favorite stories are human, so I'm always looking for...

The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves

There is no alternative to class struggle.

Autobiographies ought to begin with Chapter Two.

The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.