“You just want to try a bunch of stuff, because you don't know what's going to be great.” KnowsWantTryingStuffExperimentsBunch Author:Ira Glass
“Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I cant even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.” WantStoriesImagineMovementHonestlyIgnorantCant Author:Ira Glass
“I just feel like there's so many movies I haven't seen that I want to see, that I would never go back to the same one. It's funny because all my friends, they have movies that they've seen over and over again.” WantFeelsHavensMy Friends Author:Ira Glass
“The truth is, I just don't have that much time to see movies. So if I get two hours where I can actually see a film, I don't want to go backwards, I want to go forwards.” IfsWantI CanTwoFilmHoursTruth IsBackwards Author:Ira Glass
“It's hard to make something that's interesting. It's really, really hard. It's like a law of nature, a law of aerodynamics, that anything that's written or anything that's created wants to be mediocre. The natural state of all writing is mediocrity... So what it takes to make anything more than mediocre is such an act of will.” WantWritingHardStatesLawNaturalInterestingWrittenMediocrityMediocreLaws Of NatureAerodynamics Author:Ira Glass
“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.” KnowsWantHeartFearlessFierce Author:Ira Glass
“What nobody tells people who are beginners… is that all of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, and it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not… your taste is why your work disappoints you… We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this… 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.” PeopleKnowsWantTryingYearsFirstsStuffCreativeSpecialCoupleTasteAmbitionBe GoodGapsVolumeDisappointGood TasteBeginnersCreative WorkSpecial Things Author:Ira Glass
