Whether I'm at the gas station or I be at the store, I be there by myself. I be regular.
Common sense is not a simple thing. Instead, it is an immense society of hard-earned practical ideas - of multitudes of life-learned rules and exceptions, dispositions and tendencies, balances and checks.
This-the immediate, everyday, and present experience-is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.
Read with care, George Orwell's diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics.
I have a time machine at home. It only goes forward at regular speed
Art is something out of the ordinary commenting on the ordinary.
My films are the celebration of reality, of life, of my friends, of actual daily life that passes and is gone tomorrow. We don't pay attention to it when it happens.
A day does not go by when I am not in a line at a store or at a McDonald's, and someone will touch my hand, and they will say, 'Thank you.'
You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day, but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come.
I have no limo. In cities, I usually hail a taxi like everyone else.
If there were teenagers who had a video camera and saw what I did on a daily basis, they'd be bored out of their mind.
There's nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can do.
I'm really interested in the extraordinary found in the normal. Hopefully, my books don't take you to an entirely different place but make you look at things around you.
The average person pushes an elevator button 6 or 7 minutes before realizing it's not working. I did a study on this, you know.
A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.
When I listen to the engine of my car, I might say it sounds fine, but it would not occur to me to say "What lovely music!
Each day is a drive through history.
Well, one gets out of bed and the planets don't always hiss or muck up the day, each day.
The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.
Other people's lives come at us without a backstory most of the time. The present is like that.
A hysterical human? Who hadn't seen that before?
The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me.
I am as average as they get - there is nothing special about me. I'm just getting by.
I don't get to go to the super fancy stores unless I am in L.A. so you stay pretty real and normal that way.
History is often best told from the ground, out of a car window or in someone's kitchen, not through some huge production mechanism or grand framing device.
