Quotes About Connection

I'm grateful for laughter of any kind, but it can be off-putting if one person is laughing at a different time or in a different way from the rest of the audience.

The way I know my father is not through media. The way I know my father is in number of different ways. It's through the people who knew him well, his friends, my family. It's also through his own words, because he wrote voluminously.

With acting, it's like you form chemistry with different people in different ways, so it's really added even more fun to work, you know?

From techies to film stars and kids, everyone is addicted to technology in different ways.

There's really no differentiation between the work I make and the world I live in.

Seeing architecture differently from the way you see the rest of life is a bit weird. I believe one should be consistent in all that one does, from the books you read to the way you bring up your children. Everything you do is connected.

Everybody ticks differently, but family is very important for me.

Everyone connects differently with different things.

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

It's very difficult to design something for someone if you have no empathy.

I want to try to make difficult people somehow relatable.

The most difficult things in the world is to touch anybody's heart.

I think one of the difficult things for me was that I was putting on a brave face for my loved ones; they were putting on a brave face for me. But what got lost in that was the ability to talk about our fear.

In difficult times, most of us need friends.

Between children and parents, there is a difficulty of seeing each other simply as people.

By the nature of cinema and how it literalizes what we envision, movies can have difficulty replicating that connection we make with a classic book.

I get so much mail from women who have lost children because one of my books is about that. There was also a period when my marriage was in difficulty, which people connected with.

Just because you are having difficulty in a relationship doesn't mean the love you feel in a relationship is not necessarily real. Or just because you actually can't be together in a relationship, doesn't necessarily mean the relationship is not real.

I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.

I think every couple should find an artist that they dig together.

My basic mission as an artist is to communicate with people. Therefore, I am conscious I have to make films that people can digest.

We want to bring people back to normal human social relationships. Your digital stuff can be there, but it doesn't have to take over your whole world.

In the digital age, there is a new rule book for romance.

There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.