A Quote by J. J. Abrams

I've always liked working on stories that combine people who are relatable with something insane.

J. J. Abrams

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J. J. Abrams
American - Director
Born: June 27, 1966

I've found that the common humanity of people is the most relatable thing, and even if your stories are very specific about a different place, if you have a relatable core of humanity, people will go along with it.

Kumail Nanjiani

I guess I've always been kind of obsessed with food. I always liked drawing food, and I always liked stories - I think I probably just read somewhere that stories are better if someone's eating in them. I don't know where that came from, but it really stuck, and I always try to put food in.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

Extreme people combine brilliance and talent with an insane work ethic.

Justine Musk

I like human stories. I like stories about situations we can relate to. I like movies like 'Ordinary People' or 'Terms of Endearment.' Mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, boyfriends, girlfriends. The stories to me that are worth telling are almost simple ones, but very relatable.

Chris Evans

I always liked to write and had fun writing, but I didn't have any pretensions about being a writer. I liked to read and liked to putz around and write little stories or poems, but my thing was sports.

John Edgar Wideman

You can't stop insane people from doing insane things with insane laws. That's insane!

Penn Jillette

I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.

Anna Deavere Smith

I would have liked to be on the streets of Manhattan during 9/11. My working theory is that people are much kinder to each other in times of trauma than we tend to portray in our stories.

Claire Cameron

I saw the short stories people were doing on Kindle and really liked the idea of seeing something I'd written on that screen.

Robin Sloan

I spent 12 years of my life writing stories without black people. That's insane to me. It's insane that I could have believed in magical portals and dragons and all that stuff, but to believe a black person could be experiencing those things was unimaginable.

Tomi Adeyemi

I've always liked working with friends or, you know, people I have outside relationships with.

Noah Baumbach

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

John Lennon

I've always just liked working. I like being a working actor.

Ryan Reynolds

I'm married now, but back when I had girlfriends, you were always wondering if they liked you, and if you liked them enough. You're together, but the smallest thing could make one of you go 'You know what? This isn't working!

Jeremy Sisto

I love relatable stories.

Gina Rodriguez

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