Rob Reiner Quotes

I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.

I always like to write where I'm at in real life into whatever I'm working on.

There are elements of myself in every character I do, just because you take from your real life experiences and sprinkle those into your character.

I think it's easier for me to write from experience.

If I want people to connect to my words and my stories, I need to tell them where they came from. Because then, when you break into song, they have kind of a blueprint for why I wrote that song, so they can come to it with something they went through that helps them connect to it.

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

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.

And that's what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves - parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it's pretty spectacular.

The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.

I always find stuff in my characters to relate to.

I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.

I go to great lengths to make certain situations feel right to the reader.

Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine - that sort of thing.

I don't believe you just create a character out of thin air, there's always something of yourself you bring.

With acting, it wouldn't be about money: it would be about taking my life experiences and using them to create art.

I do not believe that with a fictional character you can force yourself too far away from yourself. There has to be some of you in it.

I prefer to do roles that I can relate to.

A few things I've noticed about myself as a listener, and the music that I relate to and the music that's continued to mean something to me since I was a little kid or a teenager, is that they're songs that tell stories and songs that come from a place of experience.

Weirdly enough, I don't like to pretend. I try to use things in me, and translate them into the situation and the characters, so it always needs to run through my own veins.

In all my characters, I try to find an iota of myself, and in Castle, I found a lot. He gets away with a lot, so that's fun.

My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about.

The stories I love the most are where the author has a lot of empathy for everyone. The author loves their characters and takes their situations really seriously, and you feel like you're just dropped into a different world.

It's easier to write from my own life, and it's also more fun. I always write about relationships, for instance, whether they're romantic relationships, friendships, encounters... there's always a lesson to be learned from them.

A lyric has to mean something to me, something that has happened to me.

The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me.