25 Quotes by David Shapiro

Calling is connection: Uncovering our calling is a deliberate choice to serve others and to make a difference in the world. Our calling is made manifest in service to others...it is paradoxical but true; we are more likely to receive the meaning and fulfillment we seek when we enable others to achieve the meaning and fulfillment they seek, as well.

Because everyone's, you know, Japanese. You'd have to hate everyone. It feels like everyone's on the same team here.

I always expose the apparatus. I show how the film was made. I acknowledge the filmmaker and the filmmaking.

I don't necessarily believe in the ideology of cinema verité. I think by the very fact that you have a camera there you are affecting the story and you are influencing it.

There is a lot of silence in watching somebody trying to remember things.

We all have a family and I think we all have a perception of our family that we like to keep and we all have our positive memories in a certain way. Then when life catches up to them, when you see a different perspective of them, or when you are a couple degrees over, you can see things differently and it shakes you to the foundation.

Sometimes you are ahead of people and sometimes people have blind spots. They can't see the world and they can't see what they do.

I wanted my book to make people cry, but I feel like I'm the only person who my book is going to make cry, if they show me the sales numbers.

I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer.