Matt Bird quotes

“It's relatively easy to create an ambiguous character. Any conglomeration of likable and unlikeable traits, chosen at random, will result in an ambiguous character. Getting an audience to deeply identify with a character, on the other hand, is one of the hardest things in the world to do.”
-- Matt Bird

Source : "Losing My Religion, Part 2: Misconceptions About Character". www.secretsofstory.com. November 21, 2012.

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“Give your hero a strong simple reason that he or she has to solve the problem right now.”
-- Matt Bird

Source : "How to Re-Write, Addendum: Motivation Too Weak? Don’t Multiply It—Simplify It!". www.secretsofstory.com. April 28, 2013.

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“The best things in life don't come in adult sizes.”
-- Matt Bird

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“The Srimad-Bhagavatam states that any bona fide preacher of God consciousness must have the qualities of titiksa (tolerance) and karuna (compassion). In the character of Lord Jesus Christ we find both these qualities.”

“You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.”

“What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld characters, the inhabitants of the vast common realm of memories that have gone down below the level of conscious control. It may be they are. The degree of emotional involvement and the amount of free association with the material being photographed would point in that direction.”

“The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.”

“The hand is no different from what it creates.”

“I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.”

“As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.”

“I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.”

Source : Last Poems no. 12, l. 17 (1922)

“Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.”

“Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.”