Best Ira Glass Sayings
- The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do… Bill
- I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern. Brown
- I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts… Based
- Radio is for driving. Driving
- Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting,… Analysis
- I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness. Dream
- I was a freelancer all through my 20s and was very slow to get good at what I did. All
- The atheist market is a very overlooked and powerful market, it turns out. Atheist
- There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in… Atom
- Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporting where they are cynical about… Amused
- Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think. Blog
- The flakier your mission, the fiercer you have to be on the business side. Business
- In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence. Radio
- I never realized before this the emotional power of some really simple, corny tropes: people with top hats, people with batons, confetti going off, how… Batons
- Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words. Any
- I feel like dance, by its nature, goes so easily to grand and beautiful. Beautiful
- Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio. Film
- Generally the aesthetics of broadcast journalism seem to me to be incredibly primitive. Aesthetic