Ira Glass
Ira Glass
Ira Jeffrey Glassis an American public radio personality and the host and producer of the radio and television show This American Life...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRadio Host
Date of Birth3 March 1959
CityBaltimore, MD
CountryUnited States of America
voice care sound
I dont take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.
stories radio different
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.
trying want stuff
You just want to try a bunch of stuff, because you don't know what's going to be great.
ideas
Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas.
stories way realizing
For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It's a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person and things happen to them and then something big happens and they realize something new.
amazing based basically country figure food grease iconic jordan michael
Grease and starch just always win over protein. In food as in so many things. Look around you, that's what our whole country is based on. It's amazing that Michael Jordan can be an iconic figure because he's basically just protein.
corny emotional people power realized smile top
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 important it is to smile.
telling
Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words.
works
Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.
york
Honestly, like, I'm a superfan of the 'New York Times,' but I know nothing about how they put it together, and I really don't care.
mass tape
I don't think I'm better than everyone else at anything, but I am very quick at organizing a big mass of interview tape into a structure.
easily goes grand nature
I feel like dance, by its nature, goes so easily to grand and beautiful.
close harder people time
I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.
disliked fellow liked people
I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.