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.
ignorant movement want
Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I cant even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.
portraits torture
Many times I see you as a portrait of torture.
ideas
Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas.
I just feel like there's so many movies I haven't seen that I want to see, that I would never go back to the same one. It's funny because all my friends, they have movies that they've seen over and over again.
ambition fighting way
It is only by going through a volume of work that... your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I've ever met. It's gonna take awhile. It's normal to take awhile. You've just gotta fight your way through.
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.
talking people showtime
I dont meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
stay-strong fun hotel
Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?
people creative wish
Nobody tells people who are beginners - and I really wish somebody had told this to me - that all of us who do creative work... get into it because we have good taste.
drama humans
...uncorny, human sized drama
block pigs sun
I seen a pig so big it’d block out the sun.
people half way
In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.
radio admitting speak
I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.