Richard Corliss Quotes

I write a lot about other people, like family and friends. I look at their lives and relationships and think, 'Well, if I was in your position, this is how I would see it.'

Don't matter if you're rich, poor or whatever, you just want to be able to have your own experiences in life and listen and learn from other people.

Understanding comes with life. As a man grows he sees life and death, he is happy and sad, he works, plays, meets people - sometimes it takes a lifetime to acquire understanding, because in the end understanding simply means having sympathy for people.

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

Well, anything can happen and it happened to me. I learned everybody has a story.

I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.'

Acting for me is finding those things that, finding the strings of humanity that tie us all together. And you only find that by living life and loving and breaking up.

Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.

As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them.

I'm in a position to look back at my life, and I realized there were a number of experiences that needed to be documented.

You rehear your life by reading about what happens to other people.

So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives.

When I had a kid and I went through my drama and situation, I respected my father more because it kinda made me understand what he went through with me.

Love them for who they are, and what they are they are; they are not you. Good stuff, isn't it? You have to live 73 years to get that.

I always feel that life can teach you how to act. I'm always looking at life through other people's eyes. By feeling empathy. And I do feel that I am constantly learning.

Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.

Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.

Every person you meet has a story.

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.

You simply can't get inside the heads of other people and say to them, 'Look, I went through some rough times.' It's impossible to explain everything the streets taught me, and that was quite a lot.

It's very much up to you, how you shape your life. I mean, I missed out on human relationships. But looking at relationships that I've seen along the way, I don't think I've missed much.

Every person I see has a story to tell.

I've always been interested in listening to people's stories.

I'm a very observational storyteller, and I'm always relational - a lot of stories stem from relationships, whether it's me with my husband, me with my mom or my siblings.