Josh Radnor Quotes

I've Always Been Attracted To Ensembles. When I Started Doing Plays In High School And In College, I Always Loved The Community Aspect Of It. I Loved These Little Families That Would Develop.

In Writing Scripts Now, Having Made A Film, I'm Much More Conscious Of What It Means To Shoot And Edit A Movie, And That Affects The Writing.

I Feel Comfortable With Women. I Have Two Sisters, So I Grew Up In A Female-dominated Environment.

I Remember The First Day I Was Looking At My Hands And I Thought About My Nails. People Wouldn't Really Be Paying Attention To That, But A Civil War Doctor - What Would They Be Doing With Their Nails? Would They Cut Them Really Low? And Dr. Burns Said, "no, They Would Let Them Grow Out So They Can Scoop Stuff Out. They Would Use Their Nails." So For A While I Let My Nails Grow. They Were Too Long. I Kept Stabbing Myself By Accident, So I Cut Them Down, But I Was Trying To Be Faithful To The Details.

There's That Great Bill Hicks Line - The Comedian - Where He Says, "are You Proud To Be An American?" "i Don't Know. It's Just Where My Parents Had Sex."

I Think A Lot Of Civil War Stuff Is Written - As They Say, History Is Written By The Victors. And One Of The Things That I Think Is Fascinating About This From A Purely Dramatic Perspective Is Whether Someone Is Right Or Wrong, You Understand Where They're Coming From In This.

I Really Like To Travel When I Write. Something About Seeing New Things And Being In New Cultures And Environments Provokes New Thoughts In Your Head.

When I'm Working, It's Great. When I'm Not Working, It's Great.

My Film School Is Making Movies. But, I Do Think That Being An Actor Has Served Me Immensely, As Both A Writer And Director, In Terms Of Knowing What Is Playable And What Will Be Fun To Play, For Actors, And Also How To Communicate To Actors On Set, And Not Screw Them Up And Get Them In Their Head.

One Thing I'm Most Proud Of, In My Movies, Is That I Think The Performances Are Super-strong, But That's Not All Me. I Think Part Of It Is Casting Appropriately.

There's Something Touching About A Kid Who's Reading A Book That's Printed On Actual Paper. I Think That Anything That Kids Start Reading, Within Reason, Can Lead To Other Discoveries.

You Can Say Something That Can Really Help And Actor And You Can Say Something That Can Really Get In The Way Of An Actor's Performance, Kind Of Cut Them Off From Their Instincts And Really Get Into Their Heads. And Every Actor's Different. Every Actor Requires Something Different. Being An Actor, For Me, Was The Greatest Training To Be A Writer And Director.