John Keegan Quotes

Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.

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

What is interesting to me about film, and documentary film in particular, is that I can write about these people, and you trust my judgment, more or less, but when you're confronted yourself with humans who are right there on the screen telling you their story, you make a judgment yourself that is conclusive.

I think that talking about the personal specificity, personal details, is how you get the big, big audiences - by talking about your relationships or your personal tragedies. If you reach out with that energy, you'll touch people.

People see truth in my films. That's what they react to, and that's what they relate to.

Hopefully, any character I play has an anchor in reality.

And they didn't have to get into a lot of legal speak or talk ER terms, they were real people. I think that's why so many actresses were attracted to it. And it was just about problems that you could identify with so much, right off the bat.

When I'm creating characters, I just want to create characters that I can relate to, and be as honest about them as people as I can be. That's what I want to see when I go to the movies.

When a story is told really well and is real, even if it's not about their own lives, people can apply it to themselves.

I think every time I can find a story that touches that human nerve, and even sometimes makes you cry, I think that I've found something that I'll like very much.

I was always looking for relatability, because I am not someone cut out for larger than life roles.

When I look at material, I get excited by things that are telling the truth because that's what you want to do: tell somebody else's truth.

Everything I write is mostly relatable to everyone and since everyone cannot write, they feel like Sudha Murthy is writing their story. I am your writer next-door.

I'm writing my story so that others might see fragments of themselves.

Comedy and drama are different sides of the same coin. And the thing about comedy and drama is about likability. It's about character first. It's about story. And for me, it's about empathy, and I think the realer someone is, the further you can go either way with them.

Very often the characters people respond to best have little parts of reality they can relate to.

The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people, which is best done by fiction.

I just love real characters; they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their loves, their hates, their passions; they're all right there on the surface.

I think country music is popular - has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it's simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches.

The characters are whole, real people to me that I'm getting to know, and since real people are all flawed, so are my characters, I hope.

I guess you could say that no matter what the characters are enduring, I try to make them retain their humanity. Their self-absorbed, grouchy, selfish, aggravating humanity.

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

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.

Even when I do commercials, I try to tell a story about the product. With music, I try to tell the story of the person's struggle for success. And I believe every word I say. I never read anything on the air I don't believe in. I think people sense that about me, and they respond to it.

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.