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
honestly
Honestly, I don't see movies more than once.
generally movies shows symbolism
I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.
aware broadcast corny hard present seems skilled vague watch
Traditional broadcast media seems old-fashioned and vague to me. When I watch television news, I'm aware of what skilled journalists they are, but I find it hard because of the corny way they present it.
general insane price
In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ranges.
delivering harder hits reactions robot sounds
Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
amused bad optimistic people reporters reporting school suited tend whereas
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 the world, and everything reinforces that. Whereas I tend to be optimistic and be amused by people and like them, even rather bad people.
somebody telling
If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story.
generate narrative quickly scenes stories telling trying works
I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very quickly you come to how narrative works - to what we are as a species, how we've come up with telling stories in scenes and images.
criticize something-better
You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself.
couple ambition years
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.
funny-graduation wish littles
I wish that someone had said to me that it's normal to feel lost for a little while.
portraits torture
Many times I see you as a portrait of torture.
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.
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.