Daniel Woodrell Quotes

I like movies I can relate to.

I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.

I think everybody's book is about somebody's daughter, in a lot of ways. I dig that.

It's tough to break yourself as news to a town that already knows you.

And it [Fight Club novel] was written so general that my father thought I was writing about his father, and my boss thought I was writing about his boss. People really put themselves, you know, in the shoes of the narrator.

I feel like I have some stuff that matches 'Fight Song,' not in necessarily the message exactly but in the emotion and honesty.

When 'Ally McBeal' started, I went, 'Oh, my God.' It's like what I was doing. 'Bridget Jones' was in the same vein. I identify with all of them.

I think people like players they can relate to. It seems as if people think they know me. I just think I'm an ordinary Joe who plays golf very, very well.

The one thing people like about my show is it's universal. Everybody can relate to it. I think people enjoy going to a show and saying, 'Something like that happened to me.'

I grew up in east Tennessee, and everybody knew everybody's business.

I teach students that what people say about failure in politics is mostly wrong. People always told me, 'They'll praise you on your way up and kick you on your way down.' That wasn't my experience. I can't walk down the street in Toronto without someone coming up and saying hello.

I think people do want to relate their entertainment to what's going on in their lives. Not everything.

Approaching a part or thinking about taking a part, I never think, 'Is that person like me?'

I love stories about people that, whatever situation they're in, you can relate to them in a way.

'Felicity' was my 'Gilmore Girls' because I grew up in a small town.

You want people - I want people to relate to me as a character. I want them to go, 'That could have been me,' or, 'I know someone like that.'

I relate to most of the characters I play, because I do feel like an outsider.

The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I'm writing about, and that's why they always end up being so personal - because the kind of artists I like, they convince me, they totally win me over straight away in that thing. Like, 'Oh my God, this song is totally about me.'

I think it's always easier to play parts that you have something concrete that you can relate to.

I'll instinctively know that I identify with a character.

I like characters who remind me of someone I know.

… people never become a mass, they remain entities, and so you are able to feel human suffering and make others feel it because it is represented to you by individuals

I really felt good after working in a film like 'Piku,' as many people could relate to my character. I got letters from my fans telling me how my character resembles to their grandparents.

I just look for characters I can relate to.

Issues become much more real to me when I have stories back home.