Fred Melamed Quotes

Great art, the more specific you are, the more universal it becomes, and that's the thing that I loved about 'The Wire.'

I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.

I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.

There's this common sense idea that in order to appeal to the biggest number of people, you have to write something very general, but my experience is the more specific you make something, the more people respond to it, in a very odd way.

I think what Hollywood is learning at large is that there is profitability in stories that are culturally specific and that you can only address the universal through the specific.

I want to do Indian films based on scripts with a universal appeal.

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 felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple.

What I've learned over the years is that the craft of songwriting is trying to take the personal and make it universal - or in the case of telling a story, taking the universal and making it personal.

I think the name of the show, 'This American Life' - we named it that just because it seemed like it made the thing feel big. But we don't think about whether it's an American story or not. We happen to be Americans. I think for the stories to work, they have to be universal.

The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths.

In the moment when you're doing a show, you're thinking of that moment, but you don't think of, 'Here's down the line how people will be relating to the characters.' There's something very universal about 'Sex and the City' that people are still tapping into, where every generation seems to be discovering for itself.

These guys at Fox knew that as a filmmaker, I could always tell different types of stories and each can emotionally connect to a universal audience.

I think I'm a good writer. I think I have my own voice, which is unique to everyone - everyone has their own voice; if they would just write from a vulnerable embarrassing place, it's going to be universal, and it's going to be entertaining. Because everyone is the same, and everyone is unique.

The more particular you make something, the more universal it becomes.

The more specific we are, the more universal something can become. Life is in the details. If you generalize, it doesn't resonate. The specificity of it is what resonates.

In theory I know that if you have a universal theme and a good story told well, it will work everywhere.

There's always to me a universality - one of the things I learned early on as a journalist and a writer is that there's a universality in specifics. The more specific you get, the more universal it can be.

The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual.

You be as truthful as you can to a specific situation, and it will become universal.

The job's always the same. It involves helping to tell the story and creating an alloy between character and story that serves the film.

The magic of fiction seems to be the more specific you are, the more universal you end up becoming.

I'd always loved movies, but it wasn't some sort of desperate love of celluloid. It was literally like, "I want to write things, and I want people to see them more."

In a science fiction movie, the first act is a little longer than it is in most movies because there is so much world building to do.

I love the finality of film. When you make a movie, you know the beginning, middle, and end.