John Tiffany Quotes

If you hear a good song, it makes you hopeful like, 'That is out there.'

Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.

I'm the first one in line to go watch 'Spider-Man', but there's definitely something in me that makes me want to go to a movie and see something that makes me feel good about life.

'Yes we can' always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls.

Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.

If I'm going to be a pessimist, then I should just stop writing for young people because that's too heavy a burden to put on young readers. But also, I get to meet with people who have waded through horrible things, and they get up every morning, and they try to do their best.

I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it.

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.

The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation.

I try to put a positive spin on things.

I like to go see films that give me courage and hope.

It's extremely important just to keep things positive and happy as much as we can... I think it's important that singers, actors, or whatever use our voice to spread positive messages as much as we possibly can.

I think that's a responsibility I have, to not leave the listener with complete dread or depressing, dark thoughts, but to leave a little door open so that you can dance your way out if you want to.

My main thing is I just want to share as much hope and happiness as possible for music. If I can share as many moments and help people believe in themselves... if I can do that, then I'll feel like my job is done.

If you can't give children optimism, then what are you doing?

Once you choose hope, anything's possible

Teach hope to all, despair to none.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

I want to do stories that inspire people.

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we're not like that... we're more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them - they feel good.

If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.

My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think.

There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of negativity because I thought there'd be something I'd miss that was funny in the future. If there's a chance I'm going to laugh tomorrow then want to live to experience that.

I always tell people that revelling in big ideas for me is kind of like an antidote to existential angst.