You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself.
Ira GlassI dont go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.
Ira GlassIf you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky.
Ira GlassI don't like that whole "art should challenge you" thing. Because I don't feel like art actually does challenge you. I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better if they cocked you off your axis and you were completely disoriented and you'd really have to rethink everything.
Ira Glass