Mackenzie Davis Quotes

I'm into people's emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That's my turf.

When I go back to any of the mini-series or series that I've done, the heart and soul of the show always centers around how the people that we love are affected by our decisions.

It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.

I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

The intricacies, the problems, the trials and tribulations in relationships inspire me to give words to people's journeys.

I'm fascinated by people in general and what interests them, what it is that someone connects to or what it is that they're passionate about.

I'm just incredibly interested in people.

Conflict is easy because we've all had conflict, but to really bond with someone and to have a genuine connection, it needs to come from a place by knowing them.

Until you meet, you will never understand each other.

Sometimes, we only get to know someone as one aspect of who they are. Then you start peeling back the layers and understanding more and more about who they are - their vulnerabilities, their fears, their joys, all those other words that equal humanity.

At the end of the day, people don't always remember what it is you said to them, but they remember how you made them feel.

What I really like about Woody Allen's films is that there's a real investment in personal relationships. There is the idea that this is a serious concern worth making serious art about - how we love other people and how we can negotiate our relationships with them.

The thing that I regret is not having better relationships with a lot of people. Being the hard-nosed guy that I was, I think I could've come off a little bit better in my relationships with a lot of people, and I didn't.

My passion in life isn't politics. It truly is connecting to people and women.

I find myself consistently drawn to writing about intimacy and the way we construct one another.

I'm really drawn to relationship stories and human emotions.

Life is about relationships, not transactions.

To know me is to love me. This cliche is popular for a reason, because most of us, I imagine, believe deep in our hearts that if anyone truly got to know us, they'd truly get to love us - or at least know why we're the way we are. The problem in life, maybe the central problem, is that so few people ever seem to have sufficient curiosity to do the job on us that we know we deserve.

Life works best when we think of people as people.

The older I get, the more convinced I am that the space between people who are trying their best to understand each other is hallowed ground.

When people have points of reference that are humanizing, that demystifies difference.

If you only talk to a person's head and not their heart people won't listen to you.

Great communication begins with connection.

One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.