Quotes About Sensitivity

I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be.

There are so many times where I may share a dirty joke or laugh at one, but the due restriction has to be there in one's head when it comes to the larger audience.

We don't discuss race, so just the discussion of race has become racist. We've been trained that it's such a lightning rod that we don't even want to say the word.

It would be disingenuous to say I don't have some sensitivity to the seamy side of issues.

I don't think that in humor and jokes, in whatever way they are done, there is any kind of disrespect.

You can be authentic without being distasteful or disrespectful.

I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.

Never ask a woman when she's due unless you know for a fact she's expecting.

If we get to the design sensitivity and make no detections, then there are a lot of things that will have to go back to the drawing board theoretically. If we fail, we're not expecting that the NSF will help bail it out somehow.

I'm always thinking about the bigger picture and always feeling so much for everybody else, and kind of experiencing the pain of the world, personally.

I'm definitely sensitive to the idea of exploitation. You don't want to glamorize certain things.

One of the things I've been interested in my whole career is exploring masculinity and what it means to be a man. The sensitivity of a man, but also the violence and power that goes along with it.

I'm quite tentative when it comes to biopics because they cross a line into intrusiveness or exposing someone who isn't alive or around to draw a line or defend themselves.

I have an expression I use as I've gone around the world through my career: 'You never tell another man or woman what's in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.'

I get anxiety and distressed from external stimuli quite easily, so if I'm in a constant state of self-protection, it's exhausting.

If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful.

At this point, I wouldn't be able to digest meat, and I don't like eating things with faces.

I really think everything is fair game.

I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.

With a chemical alarm, you're going to build one that is oversensitive because you would rather the alarm go off and give you a false alarm than to err on the other side.

Music can tear me up inside.

I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in front of me.

I can't get through some movies without shedding a tear; I can't lie.

Maybe part of being a dad means that the slightest little thing will make me tear up.