Terence Winter Quotes

I hope people who read my books feel empathy for us and really see us as complicated people.

I'm always interested in getting to know people, and that means vilified people as much as those celebrated. You find out that heroes aren't always so heroic, and villains have some bit of humanity in them.

I think our music is more about seeing ourselves in each other and trying to find a more humanistic viewpoint for the world.

I want people to see some of their own humanity no matter who they are.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

At the end of the day, stories connect us, not politics. And there's so many stories out there waiting to be told. It's just a matter of who's out there listening.

I think that no matter how dark a person is, the more you learn about them, the more you understand about their life, the more you can sympathize with them or even root for them.

I think, really, that the only way a person can open their heart to someone who is so much another is really by knowing them... whether that's in a classroom, or a soccer team, or a food pantry, or any of those things. I mean, we're kind of more alike than we are different.

It's difficult to have any animosity towards someone if you recognize that on so many levels they're exactly the same as you.

We need to understand that whatever we do, we're all human beings first.

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.

I embrace everything about Ally... I don't particularly see her as a whiner. One week she's tough, the next she's really weak. I love that. She's human.

The biggest stories are written about the things which draw human beings closer together.

There are always great deals of humanity in the characters that have been offered to me.

When you boil war down or all conflict down to two people, it's a great advert for humanity sometimes. People can find connections with each other, regardless of the bigger picture.

We are all human and I want to relate that message to all people.

Real human emotion is always interesting.

We're so complex; we're mysteries to ourselves; we're difficult to each other. And then storytelling reminds us we're all the same.

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.

There's not many people that I can't relate to and can't share experiences with.

I think that every character, no matter how different they may be perceived, they all have their beautiful moments. All humans do. All people do.

I'm a man of many emotions, so I'm a human being, and I think that's what people tend to forget sometimes.

Empathy is choosing to see ourselves in another despite our differences. It's recognizing that the same humanity - the same desire for meaning, fulfillment and security - exists in each of us, even if it's expressed uniquely.