Ira Glass Quotes
Top 76 wise famous quotes and sayings by Ira Glass
Ira Glass Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Ira Glass on Wise Famous Quotes.
But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.
I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about the subway.
You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself.
I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.
It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.
Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.
In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ranges.
Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
It takes a while. It's gonna take you a while. It's normal to take a while. You just have to fight your way through that.
Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.
Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
You will be fierce. You will fearless. And you will make work you know in your heart is not as good as you want it to be.
There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel their presence as one person.
Like most people in radio - and in magic - I'm not cool. I know people who are hip, and I can feel distance between them and me.
Honestly, like, I'm a superfan of the 'New York Times,' but I know nothing about how they put it together, and I really don't care.
Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.
If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story.
We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.
It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.
I don't think I'm better than everyone else at anything, but I am very quick at organizing a big mass of interview tape into a structure.
You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.
I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.
I've actually done events at radio stations where I feel like I've had to give a little talk in behalf of television as a medium.
I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.
But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.