Jade Bird Quotes

It's wonderful to move forward technologically, but we cannot forget that we are human beings who thrive on relationships, who thrive on interconnectivity, who thrive on sharing your feelings and emotions.

I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that.

Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.

It's all about people. It's all about the subjectivity of what people love.

What I'm interested in is human beings alone.

Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.

Social does not just equal Facebook. Social is how people interact anywhere.

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

Technology is teaching us to be human again.

I don't know what life was like 1,000 years ago, but I imagine there was the same struggle: people trying to connect with each other.

What is the most interesting thing to people? Other people.

I think if you write about human relationships, you're always exploring the psyche and the soul. I don't separate certain - perhaps more extreme - things that people do from others.

Great art inspires great art.

I like to find an artist who inspires me and get into their world and challenge them.

I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.

As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?

I connect with just plain old everyday people. Human behavior fascinates me, the people who are the nuts and bolts of this country who help hold up the world.

In an era of social everything, we want to spark possibility and opportunity in the creative arts, in real life, person to person.

I'm really into the human interest thing. I really like regular people.

I feel 'The Street' is a really accurate comment on the relationships between people.

You're supposed to be writing from experience - experience with people, with reading, seeing some homeless guy on the street and making up some story of him in your head. If you never see any of that or have those conversations or even sleep enough to have vivid dreams, then what are you writing about?

All animals communicate. What's special about gossip is that it's not about the here and now. You don't gossip about lions. You don't gossip about clouds. You only gossip about other people. And once you do, you can keep track of many more people - this is the basis for forming larger communities.

I am definitely a person who firmly believes in the human touch and in the importance of people.

But I think 'Love, Actually' has a very realistic view of human nature in line with the latest scientific evidence. The opening scene, where Hugh Grant's character talks about the arrivals gate at Heathrow, is about friendship and connection, it's about who we really are as a species.

I like going out and looking at people, and they inspire me so much.