I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people.
My curiosity was in no way cruel. Deviations from the commonplace attracted me strongly, as they still do; and to me the hermaphrodite and the living skeleton were interesting for the same reason as was Creatore, or the resplendent Guardsmen of the bands - because such people did not often come my way, and I hoped that they might impart some great revelation to me, some insight which would help me to a clearer understanding of the world about me.
After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
Anyone who spends their life on a computer is pretty unusual.
Florida is a strange place: hot, beautiful, ugly. I love it here, and how nothing makes sense but still, somehow, there is a rhythm.
Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.
I'm a weirdo magnet, but I'm handling it better than I used to.
Normal people - i.e., people who aren't actors - are the most bizarre people you can ever come across. I'll talk to someone and come away thinking, 'They are clinically insane.'
I'm as interested in exceptional characters as men are.
Any abhorrent behavior is more interesting to me. I'm always amazed when somebody asks me, 'Why don't you write something about nice people?' Because nice people are boring, that's why.
You can pick almost any field, and there's going to be weird people.
Innovation is the lifeblood of an organization. Knowing how to lead and work with creative people requires knowledge and action that often goes against the typical organizational structure. Protect unusual people from bureaucracy and legalism typical of organizations.
By giving unusual people an easy way to find one another, the Internet has also enabled them to pool rare talents, resources, and voices, then push their case into public consciousness. The response, in many cases, is a kind of hysteria.
During the Hollywood studio system, they looked for people who were unusual. The stars had peculiarities.
But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet every day.
When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before.
People are quite frequently eccentric.
People - just weird people are attracted to Miami. And they come there not for serious reasons, usually.
People are pretty strange.
