Abigail Disney Quotes

And that's what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves - parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it's pretty spectacular.

It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with that.

To me, it's important to try and make an emotional connection with the audience.

Somewhere, the audience relates to my characters and their vulnerability. I believe they see themselves in me.

I think unintentionally I gravitate towards concepts and topics that hit home or are something real we can all relate to.

How to make a scary movie human, take a movie like Sinister. How can I make that guy so real so that the scary elements of it are more scary and it functions as a genre movie - as the way it's supposed to, you want to hear a ghost story at midnight, that's a good one - but how do you fill it up with humanity inside, in staying true to the genre? You know? Does that make sense?

At the end of the day, I choose something that makes my heart beat, that I can relate to, that's very complex, or human.

But work that's got real substance does make people feel, "There's someone else out there who relates to my experience, or who just helped me understand my own experience a little bit better." And I think that's still got enormous value.

Our jobs as artists is to make sure our art tells a real story and let people see themselves in these characters. It's about having a conversation about being better people.

As a filmmaker, you are constantly having the discussion with your team about whether something is "relatable".

I have the great privilege of being both witness and storyteller. Intimacy, trust and intuition guide my work.

Since I hold no judgments against my characters, no matter how heinous they might seem, I present them as real people with their own moral centers. We might feel those moral centers are mis-calibrated, but they are there and are the rudders that propel them. This makes reading my work a visceral roller coaster, 'cause the reader must embark on the journey of the protagonist equipped only with his or her own moral center.

Only connect!...Only connect the prose and the passion.

I adored history, not the dry dates and boring battles, but the stories and the people who populated them.

I get letters from people about my work. The thing that pleases me most is that my work touches their feelings. In fact, they don't talk about the paintings. They end up telling me the story of their life or how their father died.

It's a real joy to be moved by something, but it doesn't happen often to me.

A couple of years ago I picked up New Yorker writer Alma Guillermoprieto's "The Heart That Bleeds," which is reportage from Latin America in the 1990s. You can predict that some books will give you a thrill, but you can't predict the books that will hit you hard. It is a little bit like falling in love.

I really focus on what my fans will take from it, people living their day-to-day lives. At the end of the day, the music isn't for me; it's for people who are going through their struggles and want to relate to someone who feels the same way they do. I've got to go all-in, expressing myself, right there in the moment.

On a superhero show, you have to have people who are really human and who have the experience the audience is having.

There is a big difference between tweeting to your friend about something that is happening and having a real personal relationship with people.

Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.

Facts interest me less than the trailing smoke of stories.

Sometimes the lines in a song are lines you wish you could text-message somebody in real life.

The number one thing I want my videos to be is relatable.

I want people to feel that they've gotten to know the people in the film a little bit, gotten to see Pine Ridge in ways they haven't seen before. I think that's a good start.