The drive of the story is sort of hinted at the beginning, is Joy and Sadness and those two characters. Especially Joy starting to understand that there's more to life than being happy. And so that's based on real life observations and things that we've learned as adults.
My inspiration for songs is just everyday life. I just write down words about things that have happened to me, people I've met.
I am inspired by many mediums and use them to express varied aspects of my philosophies and life observations.
Throughout my career as a songwriter, I've had a knack for writing songs that were about me and my life experiences and observations.
Songwriting's a weird game. I never intended to become one - I fell into this by mistake, and I can't get out of it. It fascinates me. I like to point out the rawer points of life.
The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.
A lot of my writing and my detailing of scenes are based on my observations of life in Nagpur.
One of the funny things in life to me is a guy who takes himself very seriously.
Garry Shandling's stand-up specials were masterpieces of tightly crafted stories that delivered both hard jokes and hard truths. He was neurotic and self-deprecating, and his observations on life cut deep.
To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.
I try to take notes of things that happen that I think are important or interesting or just little tidbits here and there that happen in life. And some of it's even just one line or like a saying and I just go off that.
Even the best novelists are rarely congratulated on the quality of their observations about contemporary life.
In the moment of making films, I want to share my observations of life, not of other films.
Basically it's true that my own life has been my chief window for life in America, beginning with my childhood and the conflicts, the struggles, the strains that I felt in my own family.
All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it.
