“Opening a book in the middle of a chapter always made me feel like I was interrupting a group of strangers, wandering unannounced into their villages and apartments and taxis and slums.” FeelsMadeBookGroupsMiddleStrangerOpeningWanderVillageChaptersApartmentTaxiSlumsInterrupting Book:The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls Source: The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls
“The biggest thing I've noticed with some of my favorite directors is their gift of sticking a bunch of strangers in a room together and making them comfortable and making them into a cohesive group. There's magic involved, because you don't know why anybody would pick this group of people.” PeopleKnowsTogetherRoomsMagicGroupsInvolvedDirectorsComfortablePicksMy FavoriteStrangerBunch Author:Alison Pill
“I became part of a little study group in community college and started caring about strangers. It gave me insight into what an asshole I was. I saw that I had only lived half of a life.” LittlesCommunityHalfStudySawsGroupsCollegeStrangerInsightCaringCommunity CollegeStudy Group Author:Dan Harmon
“The American independent cinema is as formulaic as Hollywood and one genre is what you might call the 'inaction movie'. The setting is invariably a decaying town in a regional backwater where a catalytic stranger or returning native meets up with a group of sad, eccentric outsiders.” MightGroupsHollywoodTownsIndependentStrangerSettingSettingsGenreCinemaNativeOutsidersInactionEccentricGenre Is Author:Philip French