David Krumholtz Quotes

Film is much more of a brand business, whereas on Broadway, you can do complete unknowns and have hits.

Movies are made for people to pay and go see them.

I'm a big fan of not letting the audience of off the hook, as they say. I like it when things feel real, and that's oftentimes not comfortable.

To get audiences to go see a film is a completely separate issue.

I grew up in LA, and I don't think I've seen LA onscreen in a way that felt real to me. There are definitely movies, but they are few and far between. I wanted to see a movie that was set in LA that wasn't about the film industry. LA is such a lonely place to be alone. In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafés, you can talk to people. In LA, no one talks to each other, you're in your house, you're in your car, even when you take walks there's no one on the street.

The number one thing I want my videos to be is relatable.

I don't talk to everybody, so they don't really know the real me. I don't think anybody will.

You have only 30 seconds with a new person. I will give you a hug so you know I’m real, and then you’re real too.

Don't pass it by - the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist's that it waits for.

I think of myself as writing for one person, that one perfect reader who understands and loves.

Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?

To hear an artist be transparent is one of the greatest things they could ever do for their fans. I love that, when I see my fans on the road we have real conversations and it's not even that I do it as some big ploy to have album sales. I do it because it's important for them to understand who I am. So, whatever backlash comes along with me being transparent, there's nothing I can do about it.

This is not something insignificant. This is real. This is happening, and this is ours.

At the end of the day, regardless of whether you're doing a huge budget film or a small budget film, you still want the film to do well, and have people see it. That's the whole point. You want to put some kind of message into your films, and you want people to see it.

If you make things too real, sometimes you bring it down to the mundane.

I'm sort of socially inept, so music is my way to connect to people. It's a means of socializing and having a life. Otherwise I wouldn't bother. I would just make home recordings and play them for myself. And that's not really healthy.

Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.

Sometimes the lines in a song are lines you wish you could text-message somebody in real life.

By putting myself out there the way I've been doing people see me as a real person. Even though I do character voices and funny noises the stories are still real and I put them all out there.

We want to have movies be seen. So, first and foremost, what's the world? So we can get it onto a big screen.

I can count the number of dates I've had on one hand. I wish that guys would approach me, but they don't.

This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain and fear is real fear. The moon in the sky is no paper moon.

You want the film to be critically successful - you certainly want the film to be financially successful so that you can...well, because that's how movies like this are made, you know, they need to make money. But as a director, you can only make the movie that you want to make.

Because what's the point of something virtual if it doesn't end up being real?

You have to find your tone and work within that to make it as real so the audience can really engage in the story you're telling.