Quotes About People

There's no harmony in most people in a way, and I'm attracted to it, and I think it makes for good storytelling.

I think being snobby about the kind of storytelling people do, it just irks me. It irks me. And in fact, it's one of the things that drives me to make as many horror movies as I do.

Gossip is essentially storytelling: storytelling about people whom we know.

I love storytelling. I love characters that are complicated and layered, real people, that you see why they do what they do.

I understand the psychology of the business. I understand who I am and I know how I interact with other people, but that's a gift, the storytelling. Not everybody has that gift and it's kind of like the way I work.

There's people who live life authentically and there's people who live a life of fabrication. And it begins with the question of how you're gonna do your time. And these are observations I made about Folsom when I was there with Dustin Hoffman when he was directing 'Straight Time.'

SO when I got word from three different sets of people who all said Manson had cancer, I knew I couldn't get straight info from his staff and had no choice but to go over the fence for it.

It's important not to lose sight of the fact people of all sorts are still putting themselves at risk. It happens to straight and gay, single and married. I have never been comfortable thinking of AIDS as something that 'other people' get.

I like Scottish people because they feel very true. They're always level and straight. They get a reputation for being hardened because of it, but I find them to be scrupulously honest people.

Straight people love to steal from drag queens. It happens all the time.

I deliberately decided to write a kind of guide to leather bars for straight people, for people not into leather, so that people could see what it was all about.

When a person has a gun, sometimes their mind clicks that this thing will win arguments and straighten people out.

What I dislike about movie culture is that it often presents a parable of our problems - but the issues are all straightforward and the people are either nice or they're not. In real life, everyone falls between those perimeters, but not many American films operate in that grey area.

I've experienced, in general, in New York, people cut to the chase a little more, and they're a little bit more straightforward. In L.A. I've experienced more wishy-washiness. I will say, though, that the people that are actually from L.A. - like, born and raised in L.A. - are the real nice and genuine people.

In the music industry, you meet some not very nice people, some very strange characters.

People are strange. We're all morticians. Hey, what's on TV?

As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the bottom of every page, I'd put a strange scribble. I was emulating adult handwriting, though I didn't actually know how to write.

People are pretty strange.

It really is a strange time we're living in, when saying 'Don't kill people' is considered a radical point of view.

It is a strange thing that true crime has now got entertainment value. I don't know why people love shows about crime so much.

Pressure does strange things to people. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't have swapped anything. In many ways when the club was going through that period I was probably quite happy it was me, because I knew Rangers as well as anybody could have at that particular time.

Strangely, I have a huge aversion to movies that try to teach healthy people an abusive lesson about the darkness in the world.

I first heard about 'Stranger Things' from people dressed as the characters coming up to me at conventions saying, 'Hey, you have to see this show. It's 'Goonies.'

Fueled by the kindness and generosity of strangers, 'Food for the Poor' builds houses for people.