Ami Vitale Quotes

#1. Empathy is the wellspring of creativity.

Ami Vitale

#2. The further you descend into a pit, the darker things appear. You can't keep digging to find the light.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#3. The only people I really hate are parking attendants.

Alison Jackson

#4. To learn that happiness is what brings success, and not the other

Ami Vitale

#5. Find congruency between what you say and what you do. As they say, as powerful as words are, actions can sometimes speak louder still.

Malti Bhojwani

#6. Grips and electricians have done more to help me shoot good movies than any other craft.

Gordon Willis

#7. The most powerful stories are the ones that unite us, not divide us.

Ami Vitale

#8. I think the most important thing any artist can do is to constantly push themselves and improve their craft.

Ami Vitale

#9. I don't look at myself on the outside. Sometimes you feel like you're not really there and need one more [take], because I feel like something is coming out. I don't really know what but I need to get it out.

Noomi Rapace

#10. The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and where are they? They seem to have as much or more vitality and complexity as the people around you.

Whitley Strieber

#11. The end of the world hasn't granted the clumsiest among us any measure of grace.

Patricia Hamill

#12. One thing talk can't accomplish is communication. This is because everybody's talking too much to pay attention to what anyone is saying

P. J. O'Rourke

#13. Empathy is the key to great stories.

Ami Vitale

#14. Now I am just an elderly lady who is full of spleen,
who humps around greater Boston in a God-awful hat,
who never lived and yet outlived her time,
hating men and dogs and Democrats.

Anne Sexton

#15. I don't come taking millions of pictures. I spend time with them and simply observe. If you wait long enough those amazing images will come.

Ami Vitale

#16. 'The Dovekeepers' is a fantastic novel written by Alice Hoffman; it was a bestselling novel, and I fell in love with the book and bought the rights to it.

Roma Downey

#17. But sometimes, like tonight, she feels plugged in to the raw emotion of it all, a closed circuit, and if she doesn't keep it at arm's length, it still has the power to break her.

Blake Crouch

#18. Tunnel vision can kill creativity.

Ami Vitale

#19. Find the stories that unite us

Ami Vitale

#20. We are being programmed by mental pygmies.

Howard Hesseman

#21. Isn't a tangle of limbs a glorious thing to behold? Don't you wish to be in a tangle of limbs?

Rick Moody

#22. If you pay attention to where your exposures are, you might tend up buying credit default swaps against a variety of people that you - companies that you deal with.

Robert F. Engle